The Prostrate State: South Carolina Under Negro Government
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1874. Hard Cover. near Good binding. Item #7211
12mo. 279, [1], [6 (ads)] pp. First edition. In original cloth with title in gold on the spine. Binding is worn with some chipping to the backstrip and a closed tear along the top of the front joint; staining to the covers; corners frayed; despite the wear, it presents better than it sounds and the binding is solid; lacking the front free endpaper and the top of the title page is clipped, possibly to remove a previous owner name(?); there remains the previous owner name of historian and Lee biographer, Henry Alexander White / Columbia S.C.; there are occasional pencil notes in the margin that are likely in White's hand; very little in the way of foxing or toning.
Fairly uncommon in the trade, Clark calls Pike's book, "one of the most interesting and valuable pictures of black reconstruction ever written. A former abolitionist, Pike was sympathetic with the whites, while wanting to see the Negroes receive the full benefits of freedom. . . . Without a doubt one of the best contemporary pictures of reconstruction in action" Clark, Travels in the New South, I, 174. Howes P-371.
Price: $250.00