Author: BROWNELL, Henry Howard
Title: Lines of Battle and Other Poems
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. Hardcover. Edited with introduction by M.A. DeWolfe Howe. Small 8vo. Navy blue paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, slipcase with paper spine label. viii, 167pp. Uncut. Near fine/very good. Slipcase a tad rough but archivallymended and strengthened, thus quite decent. Tight and bright copy of this verse collection whose colophon notes limitation of 330 numbered copies (this #250). Front pastedown bears the bookplate of noted American book designer Lester Douglas (1893-1961). Brownell (1820-72) was a poet and historian who served as Admiral Farragut's personal secretary during the Civil War; he is best known for his war poems, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. once called him "Our Battle Laureate." The often-absemt slipcase is present and in fairly attractive condition. .
Keywords: Poetry
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Title: Lines of Battle and Other Poems
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. Hardcover. Edited with introduction by M.A. DeWolfe Howe. Small 8vo. Navy blue paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, slipcase with paper spine label. viii, 167pp. Uncut. Near fine/very good. Slipcase a tad rough but archivallymended and strengthened, thus quite decent. Tight and bright copy of this verse collection whose colophon notes limitation of 330 numbered copies (this #250). Front pastedown bears the bookplate of noted American book designer Lester Douglas (1893-1961). Brownell (1820-72) was a poet and historian who served as Admiral Farragut's personal secretary during the Civil War; he is best known for his war poems, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. once called him "Our Battle Laureate." The often-absemt slipcase is present and in fairly attractive condition. .
Keywords: Poetry
Price: US$ 75.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 49547
- Book number: 49547
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