The Golden Christmas: A Chronicle of St. John’s, Berkeley. Compiled from the notes of a Briefless Barrister

by William Gilmore Simms

$2,500 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Charleston, SC: Walker, Richards & Co., 1852. First edition. 12mo. 168 pp. Lighthearted, sunny tale of romance and comedy that floats carelessly above the thinly-veiled darkness of slavery” Charleston Public Library online . BAL 18129. Last copy we traced at auction sold in 2006 Sotheby’s, presentation copy, 1560.00 . Original embossed green cloth, gilt spine title and decorations. Rather persistent light foxing, half of rear endpaper

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