Description

Hardcover, deep blue paper covered boards with pictorial paste-down on front cover and gold lettering on cover and spine. 40 pages. Illustrated with blue toned photo reproductions. First edition. A brief history of the motives behind the creation of the statue, its arrival, construction and financing on Bedloe’s Island, and its inspirational message [this being written literally in the middle of America’s involvement in World War II]. Includes a reprinting of Emma Lazarus’s poem “The New Colossus”. No previous ownership marks. Mild tide-mark along very lower edge of front board and interior pages, not affecting text or images. Else a square, sound, tight copy. Very good