Charles Brockden Brown; Lee R. Edwards [ed.]; Leonard Baskin [illus.]

Alcuin: A Dialogue [Limited Edition]

Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1970. Very Good Condition. Item #40323

Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1970. First Gehenna Edition Limited to 300 copies. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's orange cloth, gilt-lettered spine, in marbled paper-covered slipcase; 103pp.; frontispiece. Light foxing to textblock edges, slipcase a bit rubbed, else Very Good or better. Title page and colophon dated 1970 though cloth spine misdated 1973. Issued as Gehenna Tracts 3.

Lovely edition of the American novelist's 1798 dialogue, a "Wollstonecraft-influenced meditation on women’s rights that is the first manifestation of Brown’s career-long concern with this subject" (Oxford Dictionary of American Biography).

Price: $125.00