(WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF, Editor.) The North Star: The Poetry of Freedom, by Some of Her Friends. Small 12mo, rebound in modern cloth with double morocco labels on spine. Philadelphia: Merrihew and Thompson, 1840 E250/350 FIRST EDITION of this

(WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF, Editor.) The North Star: The Poetry of Freedom, by Some of Her Friends. Small 12mo, rebound in modern cloth with double morocco labels on spine. Philadelphia: Merrihew and Thompson, 1840 E250/350 FIRST EDITION of this collection of anti-slavery verse collected and edited by Whittier. Contains poems by Whittier and John Quincy Adams among writers one expects in a book of anti-slavery verse from this period. Schomburg Collection, Sc. rare 811 08-W; not in Blockson Collection.