Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

by Melville

$4,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition · Signed

First Edition of Melville's first collection of poetry. x, 11 -272pp. 8vo 197 x 116mm . Original publisher's brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine, brown coated endpapers. Bookplates of L.G. Sandford and Lilitas Rumsey Sanford and William S. Reese. Signed by L.G. Sandford 1869 on ffep in pencil. Almost fine, minor wear at the hed and tle of the spine. BAL 13673. Item #373840

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