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Woodcraft, or, Hawks about the Dovecoat: A Story of the South at the Close of the Revolution.
de SIMMS, W. Gilmore. (William Gilmore Simms)
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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New York: WJ Widdleton, (1854 copyright but probably later) "New & Revised Edition." 12mo (7.5" x 5.5"), 518 pages, with illustrated half-title & engraved frontis Publisher's original pebbled brownish cloth lettered in gilt with pictorial device of crossed muskets with a drum & flag on the spine, the covers ruled in blind. Blanck/ Bibliography of American Literature 18149 (citing the Redfield edition).
Binding soiled/ stained, edges rubbed, shallow losses at spine extremities, gilt dull, spine cocked, gift inscription in pencil at front free endpaper, illustrations foxed, otherwise Good or so
Originally published in 1852 & titled "The Sword and the Distaff" A useful copy of Simms' tale of South Carolina at the close & just after the American Revolution When discussing American writers of the period, Edgar Alan Poe said of Simms that there is "not one who surpasses him in the higher excellences of fiction"
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- 1409
- Título
- Woodcraft, or, Hawks about the Dovecoat: A Story of the South at the Close of the Revolution.
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- SIMMS, W. Gilmore. (William Gilmore Simms)
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- W.J. Widdleton
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- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- (1854)
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- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Fiction, Southern Literature, Charleston, South Carolina, American Revolution
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- Trade Catalogues; Literature, Fiction, Poetry; Military History;
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Gilt
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