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The Bottom Rail (INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS BROTHER)
by Daniel, James Walter
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Boston: The Roxburgh Publishing Company , 1915. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 12mo. 239 pages. Hardcover bound in red cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and spine. There is moderate wear to the binding, which has begun to fray at the edges and is smudged on the front cover. The back cover appears to have several small ink stains. The outer edges of the text block are toned. There is foxing and/or discoloration to the title page and somewhat sporadically throughout the text. Hinges are secure. Text is unmarked and sound. Inscribed on the front flyleaf, "To W. W. Daniel from his brother- the author, with affection. / J. W. Daniel. / Jan. 28th, '15 / Charleston S.C. / 89 Pitt St." Rev. James Walter Daniel (1856-1936) was born in Laurens County, South Carolina and died in Seneca, South Carolina. He was a member of the South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. His brother, William Wellington Daniel (1859-1921) was also a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was the President of Columbia College for 17 years. This book appears to be a novel set in Plantersville, South Carolina near Charleston. Some of the dialog is in rural "Negro dialect." The frontispiece is a photo of an old dirt road, "The Road to Plantersville" and the book contains 5 other plates from photos (6 plates in all).
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- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 050015
- Title
- The Bottom Rail (INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS BROTHER)
- Author
- Daniel, James Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Roxburgh Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1915
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.10 lbs
- Keywords
- 1915; James Walter Daniel; Novel; Literature; Fiction; South Carolina; Signed; Inscribed; William Wellington Daniel; Methodist Episcopal Church South; Charleston; Plantersville; Southern; Negro Dialect; Rural; Columbia College; Rare; Collectible; Negro; B
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About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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