Hampton and Reconstruction [with Publisher's Prospectus]

Published by The State Company, Columbia, S.C., 1907

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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA

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First printing. Octavo. Red publisher's cloth, pictorial gilt titles to spine and front cover; 238pp; portrait frontispiece; errata slip tipped in at Table of Contents. Rubbing to cloth at edges; rear board slightly spotted; slight sunning to spine; still a tight, sound copy, Very Good. A biography of Lt. General Wade Hampton, C.S.A. (1818-1902), focusing on his period as Governor of South Carolina from 1877-79, during which time he is credited with eradicating the proponents of Radical Reconstruction following the Civil War. The author, a transplanted northerner, fought with the Charleston Light Dragoons during the Civil War and afterwards became one of the largest cotton brokers in the South - as well as a leading advocates for Southern nationalism. We offer this title with the extremely uncommon eight-page publisher's prospectus, which includes portraits Hampton and other prominent Carolinians involved in "the redemption of the State from carpet-bag and scalawag oppression" (quoted from p.1 of text). The prospectus is complete and sound, with a bit of soil to covers, Very Good overall and rarely seen.…

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Title
Hampton and Reconstruction [with Publisher's Prospectus]
Author
WELLS, Edward L[aight]
Publisher
The State Company, Columbia, S.C.
Publication year
1907
Edition
First Edition.
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