Dolly Varden
by [BROADSIDE BALLAD] CAREY, Prof
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
[San Francisco]: Bruce's Print, n.d., ca. 1870s. First Edition. Small broadside (16x8.5cm.) printed within typographically decorative border on yellow stock. Miniscule loss at top left-hand margin, else Near Fine. Printed at head of title "8 & 7." Reconstruction-era three verse ballad broadside addressed to Dolly Varden (not /the/ Dolly Varden of Charles Dickens' novel "Barnaby Rudge," though the name was hugely popular as a result of the work, and inspired a fashion craze and the name of a trout). The text makes mention of the 1872 Crédit Mobilier fraud; promotes the work of the Patrons of Husbandry ("Dolly, do you love the 'Granges,' / Do you love to be well fed, / Will you shield them from all danger, / While they reap the daily bread?"); and attacks the spread of carpet-bagging in the South ("Search the carpet-bagger well, / And the pack of high-tone stealers, / Judge, and send them all to L.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48786
- Title
- Dolly Varden
- Author
- [BROADSIDE BALLAD] CAREY, Prof
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Bruce's Print
- Place of Publication
- [San Francisco]
- Date Published
- n.d., ca. 1870s
- Bookseller catalogs
- The South; Rural Labor;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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