SMITH, Rev. S[amuel] F[rancis] — AMERICA. OUR NATIONAL HYMN
Boston. D. Lothrop & Co.. First Edition. Publisher's blue paper backstrip over cream cloth boards, front board stamped in gilt, blue, and red; all edges gilt; 8-1/2" x 11-1/2". Association Copy, INSCRIBED and SIGNED on Columbus Day by the author on the front free endpaper to the daughter of the publisher: “Dear Little Margaret Lothrop/now a choice slip from a noble stock./May she prove a comfort and blessing/to those who know and love her, and/like her honored parents a fruitful/branch, adorning and benefiting the world./S. F. S./Columbus Day,/Oct. 21, 1892.” In addition, on the front pastedown Smith has written out the famous first verse of “America” beginning “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” and SIGNED “S. F. Smith/Written in 1832.”. Very mild foxing to endpapers and soiling to covers. Easily Near Fine. From the James C. Seacrest Collection.
