Hans Breitmann's Ballads. Complete in One Volume

Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson and Brothers, (1869).

Price: $65.00

Hardcover. First hardcover edition. Green cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Contemporary ownership signature dated in 1869, slight erosion on the spine ends, but a tight and bright, very good copy.

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Item #397220 Hans Breitmann's Ballads. Complete in One Volume. Charles G. LELAND.

Charles Godfrey Leland
birth name: Charles Godfrey Leland
born: 8/15/1824
died: 3/20/1903

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American poet and writer of miscellany, best known for the "Hans Breitmann Ballads," which reproduce the dialect and humor of the Philadelphia Germans (also called Pennsylvania Dutch). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore