The Dying Californian as published in The LADIES' WREATH And PARLOR ANNUAL | Literary Magazine, Frank - Contributor Willoughby | 1st volume edition. Ca 1854 per spine tooling

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"The Dying Californian" [as published in] The LADIES' WREATH And PARLOR ANNUAL.

[Literary Magazine]. Willoughby, Frank - Contributor.

New York: Burdick and Scovill, (n. d.). 1st volume edition. Ca 1854 [per spine tooling]. [2], [9] - 217, [3]; [9] - 220; [9] - 40 pp. 13 issues total. Illustrated with one steel engraving & one hand-colored plate for each issue [2 colored plates excised]. 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-5/8". Period maroon, morocco-style full sheep binding, with gilt decorated spine & decorative perimeter border to boards. Bright yellow eps. Some general binding wear, with the spine sunned. 2" closed vertical tear to bottom edge of [first] leaf with p. 69/70. Withal, a VG copy. Item #33130

Willoughby's poem offers a lament to the lady left home by one drawn to the gold fields of California.... "Thy heart, and hopes, all buried here / by Sacramento's shore."

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