Ponkapog Papers

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1903.

Price: $35.00

Hardcover. First trade edition. Black cloth with gilt-stamped lettering, top edge gilt. Extremities modestly worn, near fine lacking the scarce dustwrapper.

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Item #400242 Ponkapog Papers. Thomas Bailey ALDRICH.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich
birth name: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
born: 11/11/1836
died: 3/19/1907

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Poet, short-story writer, and editor whose use of the surprise ending influenced the development of the short story in America. He drew upon his childhood experiences in New Hampshire in his popular classic The Story of a Bad Boy (1870). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore