The Sunny South
J. H. Ingraham, editor. The Sunny South; or, the Southerner at Home, Embracing Five Years' Experience of a Northern Governess in the Land of Sugar and the Cotton. Philadelphia: G. G. Evans, 1860. First edition.
Twelvemo. 526pp + 18pp ads. Publisher’s brown cloth, endleaves in yellow, spine lettered in gilt, boards in blind.
Collection of letters written by Kate Conyngham and originally published in the SATURDAY COURIER in 1853-54, giving observations gleaned from her travels in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Washington, D. C., South Carolina, and Cuba. "Detailed portrayal of life on tobacco, cotton and sugar plantations in ante-bellum Mississippi" - Howes. CLARK III:58 (note). SABIN 34776. HOWES I50.
Sunned to spine; boards rubbed, bumped, soiled, and edgeworn, with slight loss to corners, board edges, and spine ends; front hinge gently cracked; scattered foxing throughout pencil ownership signature to front free endpaper. About very good. TKC-861. Item #861Price: $250.00