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Hardcover in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 622 pages. Bibliographic References, Index. Stated first edition. The story of a transatlantic culture based on tobacco, English manufactured ware and slaves through the microcosm of the Dismal Swamp Company, probably, at least according to Dr. Royster, one of the most disastrously run enterprises in an age known for fool-hardy commercial scheme. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, and unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.