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TITLE: FROM A CITY STREET By ARMOND CARROLL 1912 rare LIMITED AUTHOR: ARMOND CARROLL PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) /COPYRIGHT: Privately Printed in Atlanta 1912 EDITION: Limited Edition CATEGORY: Super rare, Limited BINDING/COVER: Softback without dust jacket CONDITION: (All defects if any are formulated into pricing by ViewFair Books books. If we miss any defects are highlights on any book, our policy is to make immediate amends to any customer): The front cover has some large sized chips (see photo). There is some shadowing or browning to the first page that may have come from the missing sections on the front cover. Book is without marks or writings, pages are clean, book is tight and sturdy. SIZE: 10 ½ x 8 (approximately) PAGES: unnumbered pages BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: Limited Edition. Privately Printed in Atlanta 1912. Fair(plus)/None dust jacket condition as issued. Fair plus because of the front chipped up cover, else book would be good. The very last page reads; HERE ENDETH "THE BOOK ENTITLED "FROM A CITY STREET", BY ARMOND CARROLL, AND PRINTED AND ILLUMINATED BY HIM IN ATLANTA, MCMXII FOUR COPIES OF THIS WORK HAVE BEEN DONE, OF WHICH THIS IS NO. 1." The front cover may have been hand painted. The author's signature may have been personally printed on the front (not sure). There are flower borderings on all the pages (may have been hand painted, not sure). THE WHOLE BOOK LOOKS TO BE PRIVATELY DONE BY ARMOND CARROLL. NOT SURE IF THE OTHER COPIES SURVIVED, SOME OF THE POEMS AND WRITINGS MAY HAVE NEVER BEEN SEEN BY ANYONE!!!!!! SIDE NOTE ON AUTHOR: Carroll's stirring poem celebrates Borglum's plans to memorialize General Lee on Stone Mountain. CARROLL WROTE THE INVOCATION FOR THE DEDICATION OF STONE MOUNTAIN IN ATLANTA xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/stone/invox.html ALSO, but not in this book, just a side note of his work: INVOCATION ON THE DEDICATION OF THE MOUNTAIN, MAY 20th,1916 by Armond Carroll This poem was written to celebrate the dedication of Gutzon Borglum's monumental sculpture of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson and Confederate President Jefferson Davis on Georgia's Stone Mountain May 20, 1916. Come on, Marse Robert, throw yourself into the saddle, For the fifes are growing fretful and the drums begin to boom: Get a foot into the stirrup, then give your horse a chirrup And we'll ride Stone Mountain 'til the crack of doom! Come on, Marse Robert, your boys in gray are waiting; We have bivouacked in this granite since the minnie struck us dumb; But we'll rise in ancient glory to hear the splendid story Of your valor and your greatness yet to come. Come on, Marse Robert, the nation needs your presence. It needs you on this mountain where all its sons may gaze. In this time of strife and passion, lead them, in your kindly fashion, Into peace and brotherhood, as in the olden days. InvCode ZU34 ViewFair Books : Size: 10 ½ x 8.
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