[GEORGIA] -- [LONGSTREET, Augustus Baldwin]. Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents. Augusta, GA: Printed at the S.R. Sentinel Office, 1835. FIRST EDITION.
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May 4, 2022
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[GEORGIA] -- [LONGSTREET, Augustus Baldwin (1790-1870)]. Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, &c. In the First Half Century of the Republic. Augusta, GA: Printed at the S.R. Sentinel Office, 1835.
12mo (180 x 108 mm). (Some spotting or a few tiny stains throughout, blank corners of a few leaves repaired.) Modern quarter morocco, uncut. Provenance: Christopher Oscanyan (1818-1895), American-Armenian writer, Turkish consul general (signature); Mrs. J. Smith (faint gift inscription in pencil).
FIRST EDITION of Longstreet's "humorous and realistic sketches of life in the 'Old Southwest' [which] were a landmark in American literature, and among the earliest works of the tradition that led to Clemens" (Streeter Sale 1168). "The aim of the author was to supply a chasm of history which has always been overlooked - the manners, customs, amusements, wit, dialect, as they appear in all grades of society" (Willingham Georgiana 28). Despite Longstreet's attempts to suppress Georgia Scenes when he entered the Methodist ministry, fifteen printings were issued by 1860. BAL 12946; De Renne I, p. 445; Howes L-448; Sabin 41936.
Property from the Collection of Robert P. Hunter, Jr. and Barbara Hunter, Alpharetta, Georgia
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