Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 193 pages. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket with $4.95 price on flap. Clean. Lowell's first dramatic work, The Old Glory, consists of three plays, Benito Cereno, My Knisman, Major Molineux, and Endecott and the Red Cross. Based on stories by Hawthorne and a novella by Melville, they are held together by the unifying symbol of the flag.