Description

Hardcover, original green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and brown coated end-papers. 316 pages. Signed presentation copy to Rev. William M. Paxton [1824 – 1904, Presbyterian minister and professor of theology at Princeton]. Illustrated with 2 full page color maps, 2 sketch maps and 1 full page plate. First edition. Front inner hinge cracked but holding, light fraying to spine ends. No previous ownership marks. The author, himself a Presbyterian minister, was the author of a series of books on travel The present title deals with Florida, the Civil War and the growing racial problem in the United Stated. “Writing about race in Bright Skies and Dark Shadows, Field claimed that segregation was part of human instinct which could not be overcome through legislation.” A clean, square, sound copy with author’s inscription signed and dated Saratoga, / May 21st 1890. Broadfoot 1497 Near very good.