cavaliers (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Fair to good condition hard cover, some wear to cover and spine, tanning to pages, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Re-bound by library. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:

Pas de couverture. Zustand: Très bon. Premier jour philatélique signé par les cinq : Jeux Olympiques d'Athènes. Paris, le 28 juin 2004. Format : 9x17 cm. Provenance : collection Claude Sachot (souvenirs philatéliques signés). Authenticité garantie. Signé par l'auteur.

First edition (originally published serially in Charleston, SC, in "The Magnolia," Jan. -- Oct., 1841; the original manuscript was destroyed when the author's Savannah house burned and had to be reconstructed for the serial publication). 8vo. iv, 248 pp. Noted as "Two Volumes in One" on the front wrapper, with a separate title page for volume two, but continuous pagination and chapter numbering throughout. A novel of colonial Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswood's service, 1710-1722. Harper had published Caruthers' earlier novels, but his loss of the original manuscript in the fire, combined with the 1837 economic crash, closed that door; after the serial publication, he looked south to Charles Yancey, brother of congressional firebrand William Lowndes Yancey, in the boomtown of Wetumpka, Alabama, "about to try very patriotically to establish a Southern Publishing House for ourselves." Hubbell "The South in American Literature, p. 497: "His best novel." BAL 2795: "Written not later than July 1838." Wright I, 495 (noted in the University of Virginia online catalogue description as one of 45 novels published in the South among the 2775 entries in that volume, covering 1774-1850). Ellison 530 (calling for 246 pages). For a full account of the book's writing, publication, and reception, see Curtis C. Davis "Chronicler of the Cavaliers" (Richmond, 1953). Gift inscription at the head of the front wrapper: "C. B. Adams, Daily Journal / from T. H. Pease. / July 16, 1847." After studying at Yale and Amherst, Charles Baker Adams (1814-1853) became State Geologist of Vermont; Thomas H. Pease was a mid-century bookseller and publisher In New Haven, Connecticut. RARE in trade, we were unable to find a copy sold at auction in ABPC, 1976-2022, or on RareBookHub). Scattered foxing, but still a very good copy. Original printed blue-green wrappers (soiled, some old insect damage at lower front corner, spine ends show a little wear).(9756).