WHEATLEY, PHILLIS

Thatcher, B.B. Memoir of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. Portrait frontispiece after Scipio Moorehead (an African-American engraver). 16mo, publisher's watered silk, paper label on cover, backstrip defective, front cover loose. Boston: Light, 1834 FIRST EDITION. Juvenile version of a larger book, which reprinted the whole of Wheatley's original poems plus a memoir. Sabin 95218; Blockson Collection 9691.