Home Sweet Home
Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1883. Very Good+. Item #48463
Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1883. Later printing. Quarto (19 cm); unpaginated; black and white illus. throughout. Green cloth boards with gilt and black decoration and stamping and gilt edges. Boards shelf worn with corners rubbed and mild scuffing to covers. Interior has some light foxing but otherwise relatively clean. Very Good or better.
Sweet Christmas gift inscriptions from two generations to blank prelim with ghostly offsetting of a missing paper doll to same and facing pages. Newspaper clipping of John Howard Paynes' remains returning to the United States in 1883 after his 1852 death in Tunis, laid in at biography page with matching offsetting. "Home Sweet Home" was revived as a Civil War song embraced by both sides, though it was originally written in 1822.
Price: $150.00