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Old Creole days.
by CABLE, George Washington
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
1897 New Orleans SIGNED Old Creole Days by GW Cable Slavery Racism Louisiana
George Washington Cable was a 19th-century American writer who is best recognized by his works on Creole life and native New Orleans culture. His best collection of works, eventually titled 'Old Creole Days', included seven short stories describing French Creole family life and the multi-cultural society of the pre-Civil War American south – racism, slavery, and immigration. These stories, which were first published in Scribner's Monthly, include:
· Cafe des Exiles
· Belles Demoiselles Plantation
· "Posson Jone'"
· Jean-ah Poquelin
· 'Tite Poulette
· 'Sieur George
· Madame Delicieuse
This 1897 edition includes the author's inscription!
Item number: #14330
Price: $499
CABLE, George Washington
Old Creole days.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. 1st edition thus
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [6], 234
o 8 photogravures
· Provenance: Author's Inscription – G.W. Cable, '98
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
o Decorative cloth
· Size: ~10in X 7in (25.5cm x 17.5cm)
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- Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14330
- Title
- Old Creole days.
- Author
- CABLE, George Washington
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover; tight & secure
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1897
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1897 New Orleans SIGNED Old Creole Days by GW Cable Slavery Racism Louisianarare, antique, old, first edition, 1st state, provenance, signed, inscribed, dust jacket, vellum, manuscript, engravings, illustrations, leather, plates, maps, antiquarian
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