First edition. Octavo, red cloth with gilt titling to top board. 221pp. Frayed to head and heel of spine and lightly marked, else tight and near Vg. Contains the original poem "He Died For Me". Verses of this poem have recently found their time and been popularised: - "I was drafted to go, and he went in my stead,/ And the bullet intended for me/ Passed through his heart, and, leaving him dead,/ Thus, I, by his death, was made free."

POETRY. INDIANA FIRST EDITIONS