The Man Without a Country.
signed
1899 · Boston
by Hale, Edward Everett.
Boston: Dana Estes & Co., 1899. This copy bearing an inserted Autographed Letter Signed, dated March 31, 1899, on Hale’s personal Roxbury, Mass. letterhead that he has edited to read Hampton Institute, Va. The note reads in full, “Dear Sir – I have been away / from home since the first of / this month – or you / should have had the enclosed / earlier - // Truly yours // Edward E. Hale.” Octavo, bound by Sickles in emerald levant & marbled boards, with the gilt-stamped monogram of Charles Edward Ballard, hotelier & circus owner, on the upper front panel, gilt-stamped spine, top edge gilt, [i-vi], [iii]-viii, [1]-45 pp. Illustrated with frontis., and four plates. Fine. (Inventory #: 71271bd)