first edition Hardcover
1879 · New York
by O'CONNOR, James
New York: N. Tibbals & Sons, 1879. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Frontispiece is a mounted oval albumen portrait of the author. Brick cloth decorated in gilt and black. Light wear at the spine ends, a near fine copy. A collection of verse from James O'Connor, a resident of Oswego, New York, who began losing his hearing after falling through the ice one winter. Though he graduated from Union College he was forced to dropout of law school after becoming completely deaf, later dedicating himself to poetry.
(Inventory #: 544487)