Mcaleb Thomas Preface Biographical Critical (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Portrait Plates (illustrator). 1st Edition. Xviii, 576, (V) Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt Lettering With Black Designs, Brown Endpapers. Very Good +, Covers And Endpapers Clean, Gilt Brilliant, No Names Or Marks, Light Wear, Beter Than Most Copies. A Collection Of Essays, Fiction, And Poetry By Pro-Slavery Writers, Amongst Whom, For The Past Hundred Years, Perhaps Only Lafcadio Hearn, Who Left Quickly For Japan, And Audubon, Have Been Much Admired Outside The South.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1894, First Edition, Good to Very Good/no dj, small quarto, 580pp., maroon cloth hardcover, bright gold lettering on cover & backstrip, covers lightly soiled with several light streaks top of front cover, rear interior hinge paper cracking but binding still tight, 6 full-page b&w portrait ill's., text unmarked.

First edition. 26cm. xvii, 1l, 576pp., 2l. Frontis. illustration. Burgundy cloth stamped in gilt front board and spine. Wear to spine ends, rear hinge starting. Presentation copy from the editor to C. Van R. Cogswell. Historical sketches by Gayarre, Cable and others on the state, several related to the Civil War. Under Specimens of Oratory there are a number of speeches by Judah P. Benjamin. Also included are essays by Edward Livingston, John J. Audubon, and others, as well as fiction by Lafcadio Hearn, Grace King, Ruth McEnery Stuart, etc.