American Historical Novels Fifteenth to Nineteenth Century: A Collection of First Editions
New York: Scribner Book Store, (1937).
Price: $25.00
Softcover. Catalogue no. 115. Fine in very good wrappers with the edges worn. This catalogue includes the first separate printing of Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet's poem "Apology."
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Stephen Vincent Benet
birth name: Stephen Vincent Benet
born: 7/22/1898
died: 3/13/1943
Biography
Poet, novelist, and writer of short stories, best known for John Brown's Body (1928), a long narrative poem on the Civil War... Benet's best-known short story, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1937), was the basis for a play, and opera by Douglas Moore, ad a motion picture. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore