1934 A Portrait and a Poem

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An Important Work, Fine Binding, Illustrated, Limited Edition

With a portrait frontispiece of Brigadier General Stephen Benet, in addition to two more plates. 

Collated, complete. 

This is numbered 50 of 50 copies printed. 

Stephen Vincent Benet was a noted American poet, short story writer and novelist. His narrative poem of the American Civil War 'John Brown's Body' won him the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. 

This poem was first delivered on Alumni Day, May 6 1933 on the occasion of the presentation of Brigadier-General Stephen Vincent Benet to the University of Georgia.  Preceding the poem there is a brief biography of Brigadier Benet.