We are traveling this week to the Capital Rare Book Fair in Washington DC. We wee be open again on May 8

[Southern Interest; Reconstruction] Uncle Scipio, a Story of Uncertain Days in the South

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Author: Walworth, Mrs. Jeannette H. (1837-1918)

Publisher: R. F. Fenno & Company

Edition: First Edition, First Printing

Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

Original publisher’s cloth, the bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 7.75 inches tall; 310 pages with a frontispiece. An uncommon novel to locate. Ref: American Catalogue 195-1900 p524; Book New Vol 15 p289. ‘A love story set in the picturesque Mississippi valley describing the conditions that prevailed immediately after the War of the Rebellion. Uncle Scipio is old negro slave.’ Publishers Weekly Background Information: Jeannette H. Walworth was an American novelist and journalist. Born in Philadelphia, in 1837, she removed to Natchez, Mississippi, while a child, with her father, Charles Julius Hadermann, a German baron, who became the president of Jefferson College. On his death, the family removed to Louisiana. [wiki]