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First edition. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., [1918]. [10], 214 pages, plus frontispiece and seven full-page plates by B.J. Rosenmeyer. Original green cloth, stamped in dark green and red, with gilt title and mounted plate on the front cover. 19 x 13 cm. The cloth is a little worn, slightly faded on the spine, and faintly soiled. The plates show marginal foxing with little or no impact on the images. The text pages facing the plates show moderate, uniform foxing; two pages are tanned from a previously laid-in newspaper clipping. Still, a pleasing, near very good copy. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on the front free endpaper. It reads: "For John Moore, from his friend, Archibald Rutledge. August 20, 1925." This memoir was the fourth and breakthrough book by Archibald Rutledge (1883-1973), the acclaimed South Carolina author, educator, and poet laureate. "This autobiographical account of his first twenty years at his home on the Hampton Plantation was highly praised for its genuine picture of the southern landscape and its touching description of the joy and bond shared by the author, his brother, Tom, and their black servant-companion, Prince. As he indicated in the book, Rutledge wrote the book with the wish to preserve the best of those years, which were 'crowded with happy memories, with incidents and adventures, tragic, pathetic, and humorous' . . . Following the success of this book, Rutledge seemed to make a fresh start in his writing career. He published nearly twenty books in prose and poetry during the 1920s and 1930s, his most productive years." -ANB. An early and significant Rutledge book. This is the first signed copy that we have encountered. Turnbull V, p. 177.