The Southern Literary Messenger, 1834-1864

by Benjamin Blake Minor

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First edition · Signed

NY and Washington: Neale Publishing Co., 1905. First edition. 8vo. 252 pp. Portrait plates. The author was editor of the periodical, 1843-1847. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. Krick 322: Detailed biography of an influential southern journal which spanned three important decades and existed for three years as a Confederate imprint periodical. The roster of its editors is impressive, including as it does the names of Edgar Allan Poe, Mathew

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