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The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics. Vol. IX.--March, 1862.--No. III

Ticknor and Fields, Boston, MA, 1862

Original publisher's beige paper wrappers. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2." Pages 273-400, complete. Eight additional pages of advertisements for a variety of products and services in back. Printed on front cover: "The Atlantic Monthly, Devoted to Literature, Art, and Politics. March, 1862." Pages are clean and intact except for light age toning, some browning and bumping along edges of text block, and a few former owner's pencil notations. Covers are clean and intact overall but have moderate chipping to edges and corners, splitting along spine, and small closed tears along edges. A Very Good copy. The Atlantic Monthly was founded in 1857 in Boston as a magazine specializing in literature, art, and politics. Among its founders were Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Francis H. Underwood, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Its first editor was James Russell Lowell. The magazine is still published to this day as the Atlantic. This is the March 1862 (Vol. IX, No. III) issue of the Atlantic Monthly. The following are the titles of the articles or features in this issue: "Fruits of Free Labor in the Smaller Islands of the British West Indies," "A Story of To-Day" [Part VI of a fictional series], "Mountain Pictures" [poem], "The Use of the Rifle," "Agnes of Sorrento" [Chapter XXIII of a fictional series], "Methods of Study in Natural History," "The Southern Cross" [poem], "Concerning the Sorrows of Childhood," "The Rehabilitation of Spain," "A Raft That No Man Made" [short story], "Fremont's Hundred Days in Missouri," "Birdofredom Sawin, Esq., to Mr. Hosea Biglow," "Taxation," "Voyage of the Good Ship Union" [poem], and "Recent American Publications.". Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: Soft cover

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