GEORGIA SCENES: CHARACTERS, INCIDENTS, &c., IN THE FIRST HALF CENTURY OF THE REPUBLIC

by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

$45 · Offered by L. W. Currey

Gloucester, Mass. Peter Smith, 1970. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. A popular now classic work of early American frontier humor, a collection of nineteen newspaper sketches, first published in book form in Augusta, Georgia, in 1835 and in New York in 1840 . This edition has a 6-page introduction by B. R. McElderry, Jr. The stories are partly tales and partly descriptive essays. Their importance lies in the faithful

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