Civil Blood

Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Limited to 500 copies. Engravings by R.W. Scholes. Signed by both Breckenridge and Scholes on the title page. Presentation copy additionally inscribed by Breckenridge opposite the title page and with a laid-in thank you note to Rosellen Brown. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($19.50), flaps toned, bumped at the edges and corners. Red cloth, bumped at the corners, with a pastedown label on the front board. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges, clean internally. Breckenridge's story in prose and poems about a Civil War general and a slave who escape to Cuba and reunite in the United States during Reconstruction.