Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans

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A first edition of Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans published by George W. Light in Boston, Massachusetts. Bookplate of Michael Zinman. Frontispiece portrait of Phillis Wheatley, attributed to Scipio Moorhead, depicts her in profile facing proper right seated at a desk holding a quill to paper in her right hand. Her left hand is raised to her face in thought. Portrait is credited to Pendleton's Lithography, Boston. Book has cloth binding and small losses at the head and tail of the spine. There is wear at the corners and a small gouge at the center right of back cover. Interior pages are very yellowed with extensive foxing. 103 numbered pages.

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