[Hale, Edward Everett] | The first separate edition of Hale's Civil War parable, the Litchfield copy

The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman

[Hale, Edward Everett]

The Man Without a Country. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865

12mo (169 x 106 mm). Original salmon printed wrappers; without the tipped-in publisher's slip, a bit of thumbsoiling, small piece of paper pasted to the verso of the title-page, name almost entirely erased from front wrapper, chips to extremities. Housed in a blue quarter morocco case with a cloth chemise. 

First separate edition, the Litchfield copy

Edward Everett Hale was the son of Nathan Hale, proprietor and editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, who became a pastor of the Church and ultimately chaplain of the United States Senate. He took an active part in the anti-slavery movement. However, it was with the powerful fable The Man Without a Country that he achieved national fame. Written while the country was at the height of Civil War it indicated to all the importance of national ties and loyalty. A political and patriotic fable it was written in support of Abraham Lincoln in the hopes of defeating Clement Laird Vallandigham in his campaign in Ohio.

PROVENANCE

Edward Hubert Litchfield (armorial bookplate to chemise, his sale, Parke Bernet, 3-5 December 1951, lot 474)