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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 9.5 x 6.2 x 1.5. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Condition: Very Good. Oxford University Press, New York, NY 1988. 342 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy! Size: 9.5 x 6.2 x 1.5. Biography History: U.S.A. : Pre-Civil War 0406.
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Very Good. Size: 8x5x0; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Light water damage to jacket. Jacket sunned. Bookplate. Clean, unmarked pages. "James Henry Hammond, virtually a character out of a Faulkner novel, was a poor boy, who married into wealth and then fought and struggled to make his South Carolina plantations and slaveholdings among the largest of the South. An articulate intellectual active in politics as a Congressman, U.S. Senator, and South Carolina governor, he became a leading spokesman for the Cotton Kingdom in the last years before the Civil War."-Oxford University Press From the Civil war library of Dr. Richard Sommers. Dr. Sommers was a military historian at the U.S. Army Military History Institute. Sommers authored a number of books on the Civil War, notably The Siege at Petersburg, and taught for 44 years.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Minor edge soiling. xxix, 342 p. Occasional footnotes. Illustrations. Biographical Directory (with Bibliography). Index. Virtually a character out of a Faulkner novel, Hammond was a poor boy who married into wealth and then fought and struggled to make his South Carolina plantations among the largest of the South. A Congressman, U.S. Senator, governor, he dominated his family, sexually violated his nieces and fathered children by slaves--all while keeping these "secret and sacred" diaries.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 342 pp. Original brown paper covered boards w/ gilt title on black cloth spine. Very bright and clean. Light foxing to top edge of text block. DJ spine faintly sunned. Contents very nice.