Marse Chan: A Tale of Old Virginia. Illustrated

by W. T. Smedley by Thomas Nelson Page

$125 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

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NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1892. First separate edition from the 1887 collection Marse Chan and Other Stories . Small 4to 22 cm . 6 , 53 pp. Illustrated from paintings, plates. Civil War-era love story related in Black dialect, offering a romanticized view of the southern ante-bellum plantation life. Inscribed by the author and illustrator on the title page in the year of publication. Original black and gilt-stamped tan cloth. Owner’s name, else

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