The Heart of Hope by Darling, Jasper T - 1909

Published by the author, 1909. First edition. Hardcover in blue cloth binding. Very Good in Wraps in hardcover binding without dust jacket. Octavo. Only slightly ex-library with an attractive library Civil War collection bookplate on front pastedown endpaper and another stamp with less but similar information on title page. Light wear to edges of boards with some scuffing to covers including light stainmarks on back cover. Author's name written in pencil on front fly page by previous owner. Pamphlet itself is green stiff wrappers that are browned along edges. Page edges are foxed. 32 pages. A lecture given by the author, an important member of the Grand Army of the Republic in Illinois, to various commemorative gatherings in illinois on the centenary of Lincoln's birth.