Stormy Petrel: N.G. Gonzales and His State

by Lewis Jones

$20 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition · Signed

Columbia, SC: USC Press for the S.C. Tricentennial Commission, c1973 . First edition. 8vo. x, 2 , 340 pp. Biography of the founder of The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C.; in 1891 Gonzales 1858-1903 was assassinated in front of the state capitol for his personal campaign against Tillmanism, the state's version of the Farmers' Revolt of the 1880s and 1890s. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper in 1974. Very good. Blue boards, decorated dust

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