A Year's Life

Boston: C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1841. First edition. 8vo. viii, 182 pp., errata slip tipped-in at rear. Publisher's tan boards, printed spine label; near fine, with slight wear and offsetting to covers, in custom green cloth slipcase and chemise First edition in publisher's boards of Lowell's first major publication, preceded only by a Harvard poem and class address. With p. 41, l. 9, ending with an exclamation point (as indicated in errata slip); in some copies the exclamation is not present.PROVENANCE: early ownership signature ("C.L. Inches") in pencil on half-title; Mrs. J. Insley Blair (Blairhame book-label)REFERENCE: BAL 13037