POETRY ~ LYRICAL, NARRATIVE, AND SATIRICAL OF THE CIVIL WAR SELECTED AND EDITED BY RICHARD GRANT WHITE

White, Richard Grant (editor)

Published by NY. 1866. American News Company

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green full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo) with beveled boards and TOP EDGE GILT. no dustwrapper. vg cond. binding square & tight. covers have minor rubbing, couple of dark spots. corners rubbed, spine chipped at top . edges dark with age. gilt top edge still bright but a little aged looking. foxing here and there throughout, otherwise contents free of markings. nice vintage copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (same date on title & copyright page, no additional printings indicated). xxii+334p. index of first lines. couple of pages in the index uncut. poetry. american literature. american civil war. ~ in no other war that ever was fought were there among the actual combatants, the rank and file, and among their mothers, wives, and daughters, so many persons capable of writing, so of no other war are there such voluminous contemporary records, in verse as well as in prose, written by those who could say, with Virgil's hero, that, either in action or in suffering, they were part of what they told. From as much of the mass thus produced as I could gather for examination, I have selected for this volume all that appeared worthy of preservation on any account. In the making of this selection poetical merit has not been the only consideration [from the preface].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: POETRY ~ LYRICAL, NARRATIVE, AND SATIRICAL OF THE CIVIL WAR SELECTED AND EDITED BY RICHARD GRANT WHITE
• Publisher: NY. 1866. American News Company
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • american civil war
  • american literature
  • poetry