Item #33129 Songs of the South: Choice Selections from Southern Poets from Colonial Times to the Present Day. Jennie Thornley Clarke, Joel Chandler Harris, Introduction.

Songs of the South: Choice Selections from Southern Poets from Colonial Times to the Present Day

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. 333pp. Octavo [20 cm] Dark red cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles and borders on the spine and front cover. Good. The covers are very subtly stained. There are numerous small areas of abrasion on the spine and covers. The spine is rolled and barely perceptibly faded. There are a couple of small light moisture stains on the top edge of the text block. The front endsheet has a previous owner's label, a contemporary notation, and a small discolored patch. Pp. 14 and 15 have large darkened patches. The pages are browned. Several pages have very minor marginalia. Item #33129

From the Introduction by Joel Chandler Harris- "So far as the writer knows, this volume is the first of American anthologies devoted wholly to verses produced by Southern writers. There have been collections of the war poetry of the South, and there are others that deal with all forms of Southern literary talent; but the following pages are given over entirely to selections from the writings of those who have made contributions to American verse."

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