Statement of responsibility: by Edmund Kirke, author of "Among the pines."
Content: Edmund Kirke is the pseudonym of James R. Gilmore.
Content: With a half-title.
Content: "Edmund Kirke's books. All neat 12mos, handsomely bound in cloth ..."----publisher's advertisement, verso of half-title page; the last 4 p. are also publishers' advertisements.
Content: "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by George W. Carleton, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
Content: "R. Craighead, printer, stereotyper, and electrotyper, Caxton Building, 81, 83, and 85 Centre Street"--verso of title page.
Ownership: Copy in Sc Rare Fic-G (accession no. B593679) inscribed: in ink on verso of half-title page "Black. Col. 114." With ink stamp on half-title page "Rev. Chas. Martin. Beth-Tphillah. Date [blank] No. [blank]. Fear God and naught else. Love Christ. Help others. Be loyal to the race." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN