first edition
1973 · New York
by BENSON, Richard and Lincoln Kirstein
New York: Eakins Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. From the publisher: "a forty-eight-page essay/story on the history of the Regiment, the monument, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens by Lincoln Kirstein; poems by Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and pre-Civil War black poets; a listing of Regiment members; and a selected bibliography. The book that inspired the movie "Glory." Includes numerous black and white images by Richard Benson. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. An as new copy and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. (Inventory #: 204833)