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The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States
Author(s): Olmstead, Frederick Law
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Volume Condition: | Good |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Alfred A Knopf |
| Publication Year: | 1953 |
| Publication Place: | New York, NY, US |
| Book ID: | 014665 |
| Catalogue(s): | Uncategorized |
First Borzoi edition (High quality impression). lxiv, 626pp, xviii. Blue cloth-covered boards; gilt design on front; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Sun-faded spine, bumped and chipped spine ends; shelf number on heel; gilt faded on front and spine. Minor white spotting on rear cover. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges starting to tan and fox; fore-edge untrimmed. Ex-lender's usual lender's stamps and markings on pastedown, endpapers, title page and copyright page; includes 'withdrawn' stamps. Endpapers and title page starting to fox and tan. Pencil markings on rear pastedown. Previous owner's label on verso of half-title page. Otherwise, internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 'Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd - London' strip tipped-in over the publisher's name on the title page.
