1867 Poems by Mary Tucker Lambert (1838-1896) Civil War Reconstruction Rare Fine

  

By Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert. Doolady (New York), 4 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches tall full leather bound, gilt ruling and gilt-lettered red leather labels to spine, recently rebound with refreshed endpapers, lacking two plates but otherwise complete, xi, [1], [5]-237, [1] pp. Very slight rubbing to covers.

Tiny edge chip to the fore edge of the title page and dedication page. Minor age toning to final page of text. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this rare issue. First edition of the first published volume of poetry from poet and journalist Mary Lambert, then writing in her first husband's name of Tucker. Of particular note are Lambert's poems describing the sorrows of the post-war South.

Three years after this collection and her book Lowe's Bridge, A Broadway Idyl were published, Mary and her husband John Tucker divorced and she married Colonel James W. Lambert, native New Yorker from Wisconsin, a newspaper editor in late 1870. She was an unusual woman for her time, not just because she wrote but because she earned a living from it, for much of her adult life.