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Hard cover, in original black three quarter calf over black pebbled cloth-covered boards gilt, the titles to the spine within blocked gilt faux compartments, brown end papers, printed upon heavy laid paper, text block edges sprinkled red. COLLATION: [4], Index [657]-659, [1]. Text, 1-656, [2]. CONDITION: Very Good. Moderate rubbing to cloth, board edges, and a bit along joints and tips. Inside, pages remain bright, with very minimal scattered foxing or soiling. Original ownership stamp to prelim and upon title page, with no other writing noted. The NAR was the first literary and cultural magazine to be published in the United States, begun in Boston in 1815. CONTENTS include articles regarding political, literary, scientific and social matters during the post-civil war Reconstruction period of the United States. Massachusetts Poet Walt Whitman contributes: " War Memoranda--Jotted Down at the Time." (p. 55). Albion Tourgée critiques policies of the Reconstruction in an essay, " The Renaissance of Nationalism." (p.1) Morris Henry discusses " The Specialist in Medicine," (p. 141). Ida M. Van Etten writes on " Working Women," (p. 312.) Lowell, Massachusetts author Cora Linn Daniels, critiques "A Letter on Prayer by the Duke of Argyle," which partially concerns the darwinian conflict with religion. Taken as a whole, this provides the student of history, or perhaps a writer, great source material for the intellectual tenor of the period. Heavy book will require extra postage if going abroad.
Ref: AMER 8177
$150.00