A Year of Wreck: A True Story by A Victim by [Benham, George] - 1880

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. vi, 7-472 pages. 8 pages ads. Green pebble cloth hardcover with gilt stamped title on spine. Ex-library discard stamp on right front library paste down sheet and a discard stamp on title page. White numbers on the spine. Title page loose. Cloth is split head of the spine. Hinges cracked. Light edge wear to cloth elsewhere. A fair reading copy.

This a novel subject is the movement of people in the South causing Economic hardships. The author gives figures showing the deficit of immigration. He states in the preface: "Herein also are to be found the reasons why the wrecks of that superb stream of immigration which flowed into the South at the end of the war mostly drifted back to the North within the year, leaving the stream dry.