M'Gee, B.B.

B.B. M'GEE'S BOOK.

Indianapolis (IN): Printing and Publishing House, 1873. First edition. Black lettered paperwraps. 16mo. 24 pp. Text includes a short story and five poems by the author, written while he was "a patient in the City and County Hospital of San Francisco...under treatment for chronic rheumatism, brought on by exposure while working in the gold mines." M'Gee lived and worked in California from 1852-1871, but had to return to his native state of North Carolina a cripple. A very good copy. Item #58364

Six copies on OCLC: Harvard-Countway; Appalachian State; East Carolina; UNC Chapel Hill; E. Tenn. State; UC-Berkeley.

Price: $275.00