Judah, Samuel B. H. A Tale of Lexington: A National Comedy, Founded on the Opening of the Revolution in Three Acts.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

The Dramatic Repository

Place

New York

Publication

1823

Description

FIRST EDITION.

references

Singerman 373; Rosenbach 243.

summary

Samuel Judah was one of the first Jews to contribute to mainstream American literature. According to the author, it took him just four days to complete this historical drama of the American Revolutionary War, which was received “with unbounded applause” when it was performed in New York on Independence Day 1822. See D. de Sola-Pool, An Old Faith in the New World, p. 47.

pp. v, 60. First and last two pages silked. Unbound. 12mo.

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