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2 January 1864. Year's first issue and... Entire Issue. Thick: 48pp (Fine to Very Fine). Little's Living Age. About FINE of better; pub by Littell, Son, Boston. Authentic (stab holes present); self bound. Begins with a terrific full page Civil-War lyrical piece by Reverend Theron Brown (Uncrdited) about the Battle About the Clouds (Lookout Mountain, TN) on Nov. 24, 1964, several months before this publication. (November 23, 1863 The three-day Battle of Chattanooga is one of the most dramatic turnabouts in American military history. It began on November 23, 1863, and when the fighting stopped, Union forces had driven Confederate troops away from Chattanooga, Tennessee, into Georgia, setting the stage for Union General William T. Sherman's triumphant "March to the Sea" a year later. Sherman wreaked havoc on Southern towns and freed slaves as his troops blazed a path of destruction, burning towns between Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia. It was a strategic victory because of the town's steamboat port and railway station. But in the early fall of 1863, rebel forces moved into the mountains and bluffs overlooking Chattanooga, trapping the Union Army.)
As well... an unusually strong all-around issue in terms of content. Literary & Etc... In its 48 pages...An article on Nathaniel Hawthorne; Mrs. Gaskell's "Cousin Phillis" and also "The Cage at Cranford;" Fur Trade of the American North-West (which apparently then was upper Minnisota); Peasant Life in Switzerland; Letters of Washington Irving; Bayard Taylor, "Hannah Thurston," Longfellow's New Poems"...More.2 January 1864. Details... 
Authentic. Complete. With original stab marks present (as it had been a weekly periodical, and so once sewn as such). Published in Boston... with American Civil War era content as noted and great literary content. 1864. Excellent -- about FINE -- cond.
A bit about the Periodical.... Littell's Living Age (also known simply as The Living Age) was an American magazine whose content was culled from various top English and American magazines and newspapers of its era. It was published weekly. Littell's Living Age began publication in 1844, and ceased publication with the August 1941 issue. (The name was revived in 1972 for a periodical by the Littell Families of America that is a genealogy publication on the Little family, rather than a general interest magazine). 
This is an early issue in its almost 100-year run.
Additional Details... 1st/Authentic. From Press of Geo C. Rand & Avery; R. Wheeler, Stereotyper, 13 Washington St., Boston. Approx 8” x 6” (15 x 22 cm). 48 pages. Self bound... in about FINE or better condition. Periodical is bright; clean; tight; etc. ARTESIAN INKSTONE.
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