City Ballads
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885.
Price: $18.00
Hardcover. Good: Book shows staining of panels/spine, tearing/fraying of spine ends, bumping/tearing/fraying of panel corners and some edges, foxing, name in ink on inner front panel, sticker on back inner panel. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Will Carleton
birth name: Will Carleton
born: 10/21/1845
died: 12/18/1912
Biography
American poet who often wrote about rural life and whose 1873 book Farm Ballads is a Johnson Highspot of American Literature. His poetry, once quite popular and still remembered in his native Michigan, continues to provide many homespun quotes such as "To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell."more