GEORGIA SCENES: CHARACTERS, INCIDENTS, &c., IN THE FIRST HALF CENTURY OF THE REPUBLIC. Gloucester, Mass. Peter Smith, 1970. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. A popular (now classic) work of early American frontier humor, a collection of nineteen newspaper sketches, first published in book form in Augusta, Georgia, in 1835 (and in New York in 1840). This edition has a 6-page introduction by B. R. McElderry, Jr. The stories "are partly tales and partly descriptive essays. Their importance lies in the faithful picture of life in Georgia, at periods from 1809 to 1835. It is no romantic plantation life; it is a lower middle class frontier -- cruel, rough, vigorous, and bearing evidence of the truth of its portrayal on every page ... they remain to delight readers who love human nature, even in the raw, and in the development of fiction they pointed the way in which Mark Twain and Bret Harte were to find success." - Quinn, American Fiction, pp. 100-101. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#164732).
Price: $45.00
"Reprinted, 1970" on the copyright page.