A Diary from Dixie
by Chesnut, Mary Boykin; Edited by Ben Ames Williams
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Fulshear, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. Book. Illus. by Ronald Murray [Dust Jacket]. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Mild shelf wear, light abrasions to the edges of the page block. Binding tight and square. The dust jacket has edge wear, chipping, and rubbing. In a Mylar sleeve now. 572 pages with Index. No illustrations except for a frontispiece portrait of Mary Boykin Chesnut. Originally published in 1904 in a censored, abbreviated form, this second printing from 1949 restores what was deleted. Hailed by the publisher at the time as perhaps "the most realistic portrait of Southern society during the war that has ever appeared between covers.".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Whiting Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011810
- Title
- A Diary from Dixie
- Author
- Chesnut, Mary Boykin; Edited by Ben Ames Williams
- Illustrator
- Ronald Murray [Dust Jacket]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1949
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Civil War, Diary, Woman, South, Society
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About the Seller
Whiting Books
Biblio member since 2004
Fulshear, Texas
About Whiting Books
We are an Internet-based company that sells used, out-of-print, and some rare volumes for readers, researchers, and collectors. We carry general stock in both fiction and nonfiction, leaning toward regional histories, biography, genealogy, sports, and the arts.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...