ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey

Mercedes, and Later Lyrics

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1884. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original cloth, top edges gilt. Nearly all of spine label lacking, slightly soiled. Item #409281

First edition. Inscribed with a poem: the 16-line poem "Comedy" (on pp. 89-90 in the book) has been written out and signed by Aldrich on the front flyleaf. Inscribed by him on the opposite blank page: "This [the last stanza], being too much like one of Swinburne's, was subsequently re-written – as it stands on page 90. T. B. A., Dec. 19, 1883." BAL 325. (BA).

Price: $100.00