The Man Without a Country and Its History

by Edward Everett Hale

$120 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Publisher's red cloth, titled in gilt on spine and upper cover. Limited edition of the great writer's best-known work. The Man Without a Country is a piece of short fiction, first published anonymously in The Atlantic Monthly in December 1863 to bolster support for the Union during the Civil War, that tells the story of a US Army lieutenant named Philip Nolan who is tried for treason as an accomplice to the former vice president Aaron Burr, a friend of his.

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