FARM BALLADS By Will Carleton, Lovely Book, 1882
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FARM BALLADS by Will Carleton, lovely book, 1882 Green cloth hardcover withbeveled edges and lots of gold trim, 159 pages. Published in New York by Harper& Brothers. Copyright 1882, entered according to Act of Congress in 1873.Nice clean book with owner’s signature faintly on front flyleaf. Pages are agedarkened and somewhat spotty. The binding wants to split in the middle of thebook. Illustrated. “Thesepoems have... been written under various, and, in some cases, difficult, conditions;in the open air, ‘with team afield;’ in the student’s den, with the ghosts ofunfinished lessons hovering gloomily about; amid the rush and roar of railroadtravel, which trains of thought are not prone to follow; and in the editor’ssanctum, where the dainty feet of the Muses do not often deign to tread.”
