first edition
[Charleston, SC?]
by (Allston, Joseph Blyth)
[Charleston, SC?]. (South Carolina Monument Assn.), nd [1874]. Original printed gray wrappers (soiled; small chip to rear wrapper, old faint tideline at fore-edge). Very good copy. First edition. Long poem issued to raise funds for a monument in Columbia, S.C., "in memory of those who fell in defence of their country." Scarce; OCLC locates only a microform edition (Harris Collection, Brown). Turnbull III, p. 467 (no location given): "A letter to the compiler from A.S. Salley gives Allston as the author and fixes the date of publication about 1870." (Inventory #: 37702)