The Chestnut Tree or a Sketch of Brattleborough [ East Village ] At the Close of the Twentieth Century: Being an Address to a Horse Chestnut
by Tyler, Royall
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good; Wraps soiled.
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About This Item
[North Montpelier, VT]: The Driftwind Press. Very Good; Wraps soiled.. 1931. First Edition. Softcover. One of 250 copies. Yellow printed wraps. Introduction by Walter John Coates. Tyler was a Harvard lawyer noted for helping to suppress Shay's Rebellion, who later moved to Vermont, eventually becoming a law professor and Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. He also wrote poems and plays, including "The Contrast", in 1787, which is noted by The Oxford Companion to American Literature as being the second play and the first comedy to be written by an American author. "The Chestnut Tree" is a longish poem foretelling a more industrialized New England and America. This 1824 poem was believed lost until a handwritten copy was found among a descendant's papers. BAL 20752. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 44 pages .
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- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27247
- Title
- The Chestnut Tree or a Sketch of Brattleborough [ East Village ] At the Close of the Twentieth Century: Being an Address to a Horse Chestnut
- Author
- Tyler, Royall
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good; Wraps soiled.
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The Driftwind Press
- Place of Publication
- [North Montpelier, VT]
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- Colonial American Literature, 1820s Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History;
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