War Lyrics and Songs of the South.
London: Spottiswoode & Co., printers, 1866. ix, 261 pp. 12mo. Green cloth ruled and stamped in blind, gilt spine title. First edition. A very good copy with the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedown, faint shadow of sticker on foot of backstrip, their stamp on title, donation letter tipped in on free front endpaper, small tear at top edge of p. 114 due to rough opening. Item #31600
The first half are the "War Poems", nearly all with an author listed, the second half with a separate half title at p. 135 page for "Songs of the South and Other Poems" by 'Kentucky'. Prefatory address notes: "A 'faithful few among the 'honorable women, not a few, in the northern and border states of the late Southern confederacy, have thrown hastily together this 'Book of poems." Tipped in donation letter from A. [Alonzo] N. Reece on Henry W. King Co, stationary, dated Sept. 18, 1894. A hard to find title.
Price: $125.00