Author: PAULDING, James Kirke
Title: The Letters of James Kirke Paulding
Description: Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1962. Hardcover. Edited by Ralph M. Aderman. Small 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xxiv, 631pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/very good. First edition, tight and handsome, of the correspondence of this writer and Secretary of the Navy (1778-1860). Inscribed and signed by the editor in black fineline on the front flyleaf "To Fred / With deepest gratitude / for your help and encouragement. / Ralph / December 4, 1962." Offprint of Aderman's "Studies in Bibliography" article, "Paulding's Anonymous Writings: New Attributions and Speculations" (Vol. 46, 1993), is laid in and also signed and inscribed by him to the same recipient on the front wrapper. That recipient, scholar and critic Frederick I. Olson, is thanked in the book's acknowledgments. .

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