SOUTHERN LITERARY JOURNAL AND MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

Item #73778

THE SOUTHERN LITERARY JOURNAL AND MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Original pictorial wrappers. 2 issues. Vols. 1, No. 6 (1 Feb. 1836) and Vol. 2, No. 6 (1 Aug. 1836). "The Southern Literary Journal is the least known and least praised among Southern antebellum literary magazines... The Southern Literary Journal...was quite willing to be part of a `debating ground' for stating the South's positions. It lasted only slightly more than three years, from September 1835 to December 1838"-Chielens, ed. American Literary Magazines, pp. 385-90. These issues include essays on medical jurisprudence, Italian poets of the eighteenth century, and a review of Harriet Martineau's Miscellanies, among many other items. Spines repaired, rear wrappers lacking, light scattered foxing, else very good.

Price: $100.00