Description
The first American edition, first state of Songs Of The Sierras by Joaquin Miller.
Octavo, [4pp ads], [xii], 299pp. Publisher’s green cloth, decorative gilt illustration on front cover. Top edge gilt, brown coated endpapers. Light wear to tips of the spine, bookplate on the front pastedown. First-state points, with “Thoughts About Art” appearing as the first preliminary advertisement and the R B star device at the foot of the spine.
(BAL 13751)
The London edition preceded, but this Boston edition contains poems not present in the English issue, with substantial textual differences. Songs Of The Sierras established Miller’s literary reputation in England and gave rise to his nickname, the “Poet of the Sierras.”
