Josephine Lazarus Mystery Prophecy Service Freedom.
Lazarus, Josephine. Josephine Lazarus. Mystery Prophecy Service Freedom. [New York?]: Privately Printed, [ca. 1910].
16mo, 73 pp.; One small dot of foxing to three early pages; touch of foxing to lower edge; front lower tip chafed with a little loss of paper; spine ends a bit rubbed; laid beige paper over boards with smooth dark brown cloth spine; light brown stamping front cover; top edge stained dark brown; in original glassine wrapper, worn and chipped, but largely intact; generally a lovely, near fine copy.
First and only edition. With a dedicatory sonnet dated 1890 and introduction by Caroline Hazard. Josephine Lazarus (1846-1910), though far less well known than her sister Emma, sought to express her ideas and spirituality through writing. She edited a collection of her sister’s poems (1889), wrote magazine articles on Louisa May Alcott (1891 and 1901) and Margaret Fuller (1893), published The Spirit of Judaism (1895) and later Madame Dreyfus: An Appreciation (1899). This volume of four essays appeared after her death in 1910. As Hazard explains in her introduction: “Josephine Lazarus planned by a series of ten or twelve connected essays to express man’s spiritual relation to the universe...only the four now printed were written.” OCLC locates only seven copies of the title.
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