Offered is a wonderful book entitled The Humbler Poets, A Collection of Newspaper and Periodical Verse, 1870 to 1885, by Slason Thompson. Hansen, McClurg and Company Chi 1886. 459 pages + hard bound cover. Poets include James Hendry, WH Lytle, Major Sigourney, James Watson, Eva Tappan, Francis Miles Finch, Joel Hart, Joseph Verey, Hester Benedict, George Bungay, and many more.

Good overall condition. Cover is blue cloth over boards with some edge and corner wear. Some fraying at head and tail of spine. Interior hinges starting to crack, book plate ifc, name in pencil fep. Some light spots of foxing, text crisp, good binding. It measures 5 1/2" x 8 1/8" x 1 3/8".