LAZARUS, EMMA. Poems and Translations. Written Between the Ages of Fourteen and Seventeen.

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $500

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

Houghton

Place

New York

Publication

1867

Description

Second Edition.

references

Singerman 2023

summary

Born to a New York Sephardic family, Emma Lazarus (1849-87) was one of the most celebrated American poets of the 19th-century. Her iconic sonnet “The New Colossus” which in 1903 was inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty is particularly celebrated. See JTSA Catalogue, People of Faith, Land of Promise (2004) pp. 112-3.

pp. 8, 297, (1 blank). Ex-library. Modern boards. 4to

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