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The Peter Pauper Press, Published 1938. Hardcover, 59 pp.; 25 cm; one of 1450 copies, set in Electra type and printed on Andria paper at the Walpole Printing Office; illustrated with nine color serigraphs by Valenti Angelo, printed in black and reddish-brown, with a pictorial serigraph (a sword-bearing soldier) mounted on the front board.
In Good condition, no dust jacket. Rust cloth boards; spine title strip chipped away entirely, only tape residue remaining; mild shelf wear to covers, with chipping and some loss to the mounted front serigraph. Binding tight. Andria paper toned, with occasional foxing throughout that grows heavier to the first and last few pages. Text leaves opened by hand with a paper knife, leaving irregular, jagged fore-edges (as usual for this deckle-edged edition). Interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Without the original slipcase. Edward Everett Hale's 1863 story of Philip Nolan, the young army lieutenant who, on trial for his part in the Burr conspiracy, cries out that he wishes never to hear the name of the United States again, and is condemned to live out his days aboard Navy ships, never to be told a word of home or country. A landmark of American patriotic fiction, here in a handsomely printed private-press edition carrying Valenti Angelo's bold silhouette serigraphs.