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The book of my lady : A melange. / By a bachelor knight.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC8 Si488 833b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 7 unnumbered pages, 12-334 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Key & Biddle, 1833.
- Contents:
- Prefatory epistle to my lady
- A dream of the earth
- Chatelard
- The forest maiden
- Ponce de Leon
- The Venetian bridal
- Vasco Nunez
- The death of a fairy
- A story of the sea
- The broken arrow
- Haiglar, a story of the Catawba
- The mental prism
- The Red Cross Knight
- Missouri, the captive of the Pawnee
- La Pola
- Metacom of Montaup
- The children of the sun
- The young Sioux
- A tale of faerie
- The fearful memory
- A legend of the Pacific
- The green corn dance
- A scene of the Revolution
- The Choctaw criminal
- The spirit bridegroom
- Cleopatra
- The festival of Isis
- The last of the Yemassees
- The opportunity
- Dreams and dreaming.
- Notes:
- By William Gilmore Simms.
- "The following sketches are now, for the first time, collected in form. Several of them have, at various periods in a short life, found their way into print--in one magazine or another."--Advertisement, p. [3].
- "A. Waldie, printer."--T.p. verso.
- Two issues noted. A. Issued with imprint: Philadelphia : Key & Biddle, 1833. B. Issued with imprint: Boston : Allen & Ticknor, 1833.--Cf. BAL
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy is issue A.
- Cited in:
- Checklist Amer. imprints, 21217
- Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.), 2408
- BAL, 18045
- OCLC:
- 191248873
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