Battle-Pieces, the Bradley Martin copy

Lot 137
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Lot 137 | Battle-Pieces, the Bradley Martin copy
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Battle-Pieces, the Bradley Martin copy

Herman Melville, 1866

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866.



The Bradley Martin copy, a very fine first edition of Melville's first collection of poetry. Battle-Pieces was written in response to the Civil War and its lack of financial success would send Melville to his post at the Customs House where he would serve in obscurity for two decades. It was not until the twentieth century that critics began to argue for his place within the American poetic tradition; in The Civil War World of Herman Melville, Stanton Garner describes Melville as “the third participant in the mid-19th-century American poetic revolution,” alongside Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. BAL 13673.



Octavo (197 x 116mm). Original green cloth, gilt-stamped spine, brown coated endpapers (front hinge tender); modern chemise and slipcase. Provenance: H. Bradley Martin (bookplate, his sale, Sotheby's New York, 30 & 31 January 1990, lot 2162).

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