A Portrait and a Poem
Benét, Stephen Vincent
Sold by Sekkes Consultants, North Dighton, MA, U.S.A.
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Add to basketSold by Sekkes Consultants, North Dighton, MA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since August 2, 2010
Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFirst edition, one of 50 copies, no. 22. Colophon states: "Fifty copies printed for private circulation". Tall octavo, publishers black half-morocco stamped in gold on spine, red paper-covered boards, illustrated, top edge gilt. Stephen Vincent Benet's tribute to his ancestor Brigadier-General Stephen Vincent Benet followed by the printing of a poem by S. V. Benet, written on the occasion of the presentation of a portrait of Brigadier-General Stephen Vincent Benet to the University of Georgia by Stephen Vincent Benet. Laurence Vincent Benet has contributed a three-page forward. Laurence V. Benet was S.V. Benet's uncle a Yale alumnus, Paris resident and the chief engineer for Hotchkiss and Cie, a French armament manufacturer in Paris. Hotchkiss and Cie produced the Hotchkiss and Cie machine gun, the primary weapon used by the French Army as well as other armies of the time. Miers & Armostrong wrote about probable relationship between Benet and Kahane since Kahane was a veteran of WWI. Both influential Americans living in Paris at the time. The book is inscribed by Laurence V. Benet to Daisy Keating. 6¼" - 9¼".
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