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Captain Sword and Captain Pen: An Anti-War Poem First Published in 1835 Here Reproduced in Facsimile to Mark the Bicentennial of the Author's Birth
by HUNT, Leigh
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Iowa City: Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries, 1984. Hardcover. With an introduction to this edition by Rhodes Dunlap. 12mo. Red and grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 31pp, 112pp, 4pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/fine. Pristine first of this edition, a fine facsimile with added introduction. This study of war versus peace in verse is generally considered among the best work of the popular and prolific English poet, critic and essayist (1784-1859). "Compliments of" printed slip laid in.
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- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- 48616
- Title
- Captain Sword and Captain Pen: An Anti-War Poem First Published in 1835 Here Reproduced in Facsimile to Mark the Bicentennial of the Author's Birth
- Author
- HUNT, Leigh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries
- Place of Publication
- Iowa City
- Date Published
- 1984
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Poetry;
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- Fine
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- 12mo
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