Item #2346879 Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia [with] Richard Hurdis: A Tale of Alabama. W. Gilmore Simms, William.
Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia [with] Richard Hurdis: A Tale of Alabama

Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia [with] Richard Hurdis: A Tale of Alabama

New York: A.C. Armstrong & Son, 1882. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Item #2346879

Spine faded, binding shaken, front hinge just beginning to weaken.

503, 403, [6] pp. Maroon cloth, gilt titles, black decorative borders and rules. Two novels in one volume, each preceded by frontispiece. Two stories by the prolific writer of the Old South William Gilmore, Simms, who Poe called the Lape de Vega of American writers. It's likely his support for slavery and opposition to Uncle Tom's Cabin (both in reviews and in his pro-slavery novel The Sword and the Distaff) account for his current level of recognition in American literary history.

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