Author: VESSEY, John Henry
Title: Mr. Vessey of England: Being the Incidents and Reminiscences of Travel in a Twelve Weeks' Tour Through the United States and Canada in the Year 1859
Description: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1956. Hardcover. Edited by Brian Waters. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with pale blue spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 184pp. Frontispiece. Near fine/very good. First edition, tight and lovely. Earl Schenck Miers iintroduces these candid journal accounts of the lifestyles and people of America in 1859 as experienced by Vessey, a young English gentleman who encountered southern cotton fields, western prairies and slave sales for the first time while traveling the United States. .

Keywords: TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION Travel & Exploration


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