Alice Of Monmouth An Idyl of the Great War

Boston, MA: Fields, Osgood, & Co.. Very Good. 1869. 4th Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signedby the author, with an inscription, on the first free page. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing and wear, along with several small edge tears. There is some rubbing to the covers as well. This copy also includes the author's bookplate adhered on the front pastedown page. The inscription states that this is the author's "personal edition". "Stedman studied two years at Yale University; became a journalist in New York City, especially on the staffs of the Tribune and World, for which latter paper he served as field correspondent during the first years of the Civil War. As opportunity offered, he studied law and was for a time private secretary to Attorney-General Bates at Washington, and was a member of the New York Stock Exchange in Wall Street from 1865 to 1900. His first book, Poems, Lyrical and Idyllic, appeared in 1860, followed by successive volumes of similar character, and by collected editions of his verse in 1873, 1884 and 1897. His longer poems are Alice of Monmouth: an Idyl of the Great War (1864) ; The Blameless Prince (1869) , an allegory of good deeds, supposed to have been remotely suggested by the life of Prince Albert; and an elaborate commemorative ode on Nathaniel Hawthorne, read before the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1877." (from Wikipedia) .