Childe Harvard : A romance of Cambridge
Boston: Printed for the author, 1848.
First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #13651
Covers rubbed, light tone. Solid hardcover. ; Parody Lord Byron's Childe Harold. Satire of Harvard manners. Sabin 12728. Embossed cloth cover with gilt spine lettering. Canto I : III "It proved her ruin.) How this came to pass, Attended by what wonderous circumstances, How the great secret was divulged, alas! And how Childe Harvard, left to take his chances, Screamed under the college pump, I sing. - Beware, Maidens, of students, as you would a bear!" Wonderful epic poem of a student's bastard, left by the mother in Harvard Yard, and the ensuing consequences.; 172 pages.
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