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Edmund Ruffin Southerner. A Study in Secession.
Craven, Avery · New York and London
- Author
- Craven, Avery
- Date
- 1932
- Place
- New York and London
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 8vo.(5.5" x 8.5") Inscribed by author. Full grey/blue fabric boards with gilt title and author to upper board, rear blank. Spine similarly styled. First free endpaper with author inscription, illustrated with 8 plates including the photo frontispiece. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, had and foot of spine ruffled with tiny closed tears, boards and spine with light stains (see pic). Lacking DJ.
- Format
- Scarce first edition of the standard biography of Ruffin, a southern planter noted as an early proponent of soil conservation, but more noted as a radical early secessionist, advocate for slavery and states' rights, and firer of the first shot on Fort Sumter - at the age of 67- beginning the Civil War. Craven was a well-regarded historian known for his revisionist views of the cause of the Civil war; he has recently fallen into disfavor.
- Category
- History & Americana
- Record
- S.I.7733
8vo.(5.5" x 8.5") Inscribed by author. 1932. New York and London: D. Appleton and Company. Full grey/blue fabric boards with gilt title and author to upper board, rear blank. Spine similarly styled. First free endpaper with author inscription, illustrated with 8 plates including the photo frontispiece. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, had and foot of spine ruffled with tiny closed tears, boards and spine with light stains (see pic). Lacking DJ.
Scarce first edition of the standard biography of Ruffin, a southern planter noted as an early proponent of soil conservation, but more noted as a radical early secessionist, advocate for slavery and states' rights, and firer of the first shot on Fort Sumter - at the age of 67- beginning the Civil War. Craven was a well-regarded historian known for his revisionist views of the cause of the Civil war; he has recently fallen into disfavor.
Condition
Very Good
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