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[First American edition, presumably not first state.] Hard cover, 16 mo., in the original brown pebbled cloth with blind stamped border with a small rosette to each corner, title in gilt to spine (very faded,) coated brown endpapers, lacking front fly, with vignette title page, top edge gilt, 225 pp. plus 22 pp publisher's catalogue (dated Nov. 1863, the later variant "B") CONDITION: Good Plus. Losses to cloth at head and tail of spine, and a couple of very small rends at the joint. Wear-through at corners. Exterior is otherwise clean and unmarked. There is an ink inscription in old hand to ffep. as well as bookseller's pencil note, otherwise clean within. The work is set forth as a series of poems narrated by characters taken from among the poet's friends, and set in the eponymous Wayside Inn of Sudbury, Massachusetts, called" a favorite resort for parties from Harvard College." Poems include "Paul Revere's Ride and The Saga of King Olaf." BAL 12136
Ref: POEMUS 8374
$180.00