Moore John Hebron 1920 2012 (3 results)
- Hardcover
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
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Reprint (first published 1958). 268 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.75cm. No dust jacket (probably as issued). Dark navy blue cloth lightly rubbed; gilt stamping to spine and front board remains bright; light bumping at spine ends. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A near fine copy. With Preface, Notes, Bibliography,… and Index. Features ten chapters titled as: "Mississippi's Search for a Staple Crop," "Evolution of Petit Gulf Cotton," "The Formative Period of Agriculture," "The 1837-1849 Depression and the Agricultural Reform Movement," "Livestock and Livestock Breeding," "Corn, the Principal Food Crop," "Minor Food Crops," "Mississippi Cotton Breeders," "Cotton Production During the Depression," and "Prosperity, Technological Progress and Secession." {MS Shelf #2} ISBN 0374958300.
Published by [Baton Rouge, LA]: Louisiana State University Press [LSU Press], 1967., 1967
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst edition (not stated per publisher's usual practice). xvi, 180 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed with nicks at edges, foxing to white rear panel and flaps, top corner of front flap is price-clipped. Brown cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Some foxing to top edge; slight foxing to endpapers; bookse…ller ticket at front pastedown's lower right for Plantation Book Shop, Natchez, Miss. Faint toning to pages 36-37 caused by laid-in May 1967 newspaper clipping from The Clarion Ledger-Jackson Daily News regarding the book; laid-in between pages 126-127 is a reproduction of an 1800s sketch illustration of Natchez-Under-the-Hill showing logs gathered at waterfront. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Else a very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket. With frontispiece illustration, Preface, section of b/w plates on four unpaged leaves, Essay on Sources, and Index. Earning his Ph.D. in history at Emory University, John Hebron Moore (1920-2012) taught at Emory, Georgia State, Delta State, University of Mississippi, and Florida State with department chairmanships at the latter two institutions. ANDREW BROWN AND CYPRESS LUMBERING IN THE OLD SOUTHWEST is one of only a handful of books examining the antebellum lumber business in the Deep South and was made possible by the fortuitous discovery of nineteenth century business records dating back as far as 1829 (but predominately 1837 onward) of Scottish-born Natchez, Mississippi lumberman-sawmill operator Andrew Brown and successive companies Andrew Brown & Son and R.F. Learned Lumber Company. Professor Moore is best known for his monographs THE EMERGENCE OF THE COTTON KINGDOM IN THE OLD SOUTHWEST; MISSISSIPPI, 1770-1860 (1988) and AGRICULTURE IN ANTE-BELLUM MISSISSIPPI (1958). {MS_Shelf_#1}.
Published by [Baton Rouge, LA]: Louisiana State University Press [LSU Press], 1967., 1967
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst edition (not stated per publisher's usual practice). xvi, 180 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed; some chips, tears, creases, and scuffs; front flap is not price-clipped; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Brown cloth; spine's gilt stamping remains bright. October 1979 inscription by Ha…ttiesburg, Mississippi philanthropist Lynn Gammill (Dorothy Lynn Crosby Gammill, 1936-2024) on front free endpaper; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. With frontispiece illustration, Preface, section of b/w plates on four unpaged leaves, Essay on Sources, and Index. Earning his Ph.D. in history at Emory University, John Hebron Moore (1920-2012) taught at Emory, Georgia State, Delta State, University of Mississippi, and Florida State with department chairmanships at the latter two institutions. ANDREW BROWN AND CYPRESS LUMBERING IN THE OLD SOUTHWEST is one of only a handful of books examining the antebellum lumber business in the Deep South and was made possible by the fortuitous discovery of nineteenth century business records dating back as far as 1829 (but predominately 1837 onward) of Scottish-born Natchez, Mississippi lumberman-sawmill operator Andrew Brown and successive companies Andrew Brown & Son and R.F. Learned Lumber Company. Professor Moore is best known for his monographs THE EMERGENCE OF THE COTTON KINGDOM IN THE OLD SOUTHWEST; MISSISSIPPI, 1770-1860 (1988) and AGRICULTURE IN ANTE-BELLUM MISSISSIPPI (1958). {MS_Shelf_#3|CMS-00513}.
