Cary, Alice. (1820 - 1871) "Poems"8vo. viii, 399 (+12 pp ads, dated February, 1856) pp. Brown cloth stamped in blind. Boards soiled and rather worn, extremities chipped, a few small tears to early prelims, otherwise good. The sisters Alice and Phoebe Cary grew up on a farm near Cincinnati, Ohio. There they immersed themselves in the classics of literature under the tutelage of an older sister whose death in 1833 affected them deeply. Although both published poems while still