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Greetings Booklovers,

We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 7511 )  Randall, James Ryder. MARYLAND, MY MARYLAND AND OTHER POEMS.
Baltimore: John Murphy Company, (1908). First printing, Full cloth, 
Duodecimo, 180 pages, Frontispiece portrait. Fine.
      James Ryder Randall, a native Marylander, was a 22 year-old teacher 
living in New Orleans when the Civil War broke out in 1861. His sympathies 
were definitely with the South, and his inspiration for "Maryland, My 
Maryland" sprang from his outrage upon learning that Union troops had been 
marched through Baltimore en route to Washington. Oliver Wendell Holmes 
described the title poem as the greatest war song of any nation, and it was 
declared Maryland's official state song in 1939. Many other fine Civil War 
era poems in the collection as well, including "The Battle Cry of the 
South," "Our Confederate Dead," "At Fort Pillow," "At Arlington," etc. Bound 
in dark blue cloth over boards with gilt stamped spine and upper board, 
blind-stamped border rules, top edge gilt. Slight extremity rubs. Gilt 
remains bright....... $250.00
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Best regards,

Rock
Back Creek Books
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