HARRISON, Gabriel
John Howard Payne, Dramatist, Poet, Actor, and Author of Home, Sweet Home! His Life and Writings
Revised Edition. Large octavo. Frontispiece portrait from a daguerreotype by Matthew Brady. Folding facsimile letter. Front hinge tender, cloth rubbed and a little frayed, especially a tthe bottom edge, else a near very good copy, lacking the surprisingly common dustwrapper. Biography of the writer and actor who wrote the famous song ("...Be it ever so humble there's no place like home"), as part of a popular opera. This copy nicely Inscribed by Gabriel Harrison. BAL 15808 (format "A").
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