[Rarebooks] FS: CENTENNIAL POEM FOR WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Preston, Margaret J. [Junkin]. CENTENNIAL POEM FOR WASHINGTON AND LEE 
UNIVERSITY. LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA. 1775-1885. New York: G. P. Putnam's 
Sons, 1885. 24 pp. printed rectos only. Sm. 8vo. Paper wrappers. 
Bibliography of Virginia 4384. First edition. Title in red and black, 
upper and lower margins ruled in red, running title in red.

Margaret Junkin Preston (1820-1897) was a southern writer. This work, 
a contemporary noted, "is a poem that appeals strongly to the lovers 
of American patriotic verse, but it has a higher claim to 
appreciation than that of mere popular approval, for it possesses the 
virility of imagination, the stateliness of measure, and the 
intensity of thought which we naturally associate with odes; but is 
relieved from all suspicion of stiffness by passages that are purely 
lyrical," (Literary World, 1885, p.344). Scarce, especially in this 
condition. Offsetting on the title, else a near fine copy, nicks to 
spine. With original paper envelope.  [33855] $350.00 

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