Author: Bonner, Sherwood [Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell]
Title: Suwanee River Tales
Description: Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. xii, 303pp + 4pp of publisher's advertisements. Original mustard pictorial cloth stamped in black on the front panel, and lettered in gold on the spine panel. Decorated endpapers. Collects eighteen stories about life in the South, originally published in Harper's Weekly, Youth's Companion, and other magazines. Frontispiece and three inserted plates with illustrations by Frank T. Merrill. Introduction by Sophia Kirk. Cloth is darkened, spine ends and corner tips frayed, front hinge weak. Name in pencil on the front free endpaper. Text block is mostly clean with occasional smudges. A fair copy. Uncommon. ; Octavo. Ill.: Illustrated by Merrill, Frank T.

Keywords: FICTION, LITERATURE, ANTHOLOGIES, SHORT STORIES, SOUTHERN UNITED STATES, AFRICAN-AMERICANS


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