Plain Folk of the Old South. Signed Copy.
by OWSLEY, Frank Lawrence, with dust jacket art by Rigsby
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
[Baton Rouge]: Louisiana State University Press, 1949 First edition, this copy inscribed, signed & dated in ink at the ffep to Edward M Crane who was the long-time president of the D Van Nostrand Company Octavo (8.75" x 5.75"), xxi & 235 pages including maps & tables Publisher's gilt-lettered maroon cloth-patterned paper over boards, in pictorial dust jacket
Covers lightly soiled, bookplate of Edward M Crane at the front pastedown, otherwise very good in worn, good only dust jacket, soiled, with tears & small losses briefly affecting text
A title in the Louisiana State University's Walter Lynwood Fleming lectures in Southern history
Chapters include: Southern Society: A Reinterpretation; To the Promised Land: The Migration and Settlement of the Plain Folk; Southern Folkways; The Role of the Plain Folk; with Appendix providing a statistical analysis of land and slave holdings in sample counties
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- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1412
- Title
- Plain Folk of the Old South. Signed Copy.
- Author
- OWSLEY, Frank Lawrence, with dust jacket art by Rigsby
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Louisiana State University Press
- Place of Publication
- [Baton Rouge]
- Date Published
- 1949
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Slavery, Culture, Customs, Middle Class Southern white people, Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American; Trade Catalogues; American History;
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