Not a Fool's Errand: Life and Experience of a Northern Governess in the Sunny South
Ingraham, J. H.
Published by New York: G. W. Carleton & Co.
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1880 reissue. hardcover 526pp. brown cloth 12mo w/gilt spine titles: Good [some light cover wear; some internal foxing; antique ink name ffep; else a clean, complete and tight copy. A posthumous reissue of a book of fictional letters in defense of the antebellum South by "Kate Conyngham," who was Maine born Joseph Holt Ingraham (1809-60), originally published in 1860 as "The Sunny South.". Seller Inventory # 20851
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Title: Not a Fool's Errand: Life and Experience of ...
Publisher: New York: G. W. Carleton & Co.
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Not "A Fool's Errand." Life and Experience of a Northern Governess in the Sunny South
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G. W. Carleton & Co., New York, 1880
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Seller: The Corner Bookshop, Bath, ME, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Worn and very spotted green cloth covers with bands of blind stamped decorations on front cover, title in gold on spine, corners bumped. Front free end paper and page between title page and table of contents page missing. Light foxing to a handful of pages, page edges a bit worn, otherwise pages good. Seller Inventory # 086006
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Not 'A fool's errand' : life and experience of a northern governess in the sunny South 1880 [LeatherBound]
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Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, India
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Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 536. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1880 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 536. Seller Inventory # LB100153257118
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Not "A Fool's Errand." Life and Experience of A Northern Governess in the Sunny South
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Seller: Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA), Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, MDCCCLXXX [1880]. 526, [2 (ads)]pp. Octavo. Publisher's gilt and blind stamped cloth binding. Contemporary ownership inscription of Mrs. Geo. J. Besser. Small corner stain to front cover, one hinge starting, a few gatherings proud. This copy with exceptionally bright spine gilt. An 1880 edition of Ingraham's The Sunny South; or. The Southerner at Home, Embracing Five Years' Experience of a Northern Governess in the Land of the Sugar and the Cotton (1860). The book, ostensibly a collection of letters penned by Kate Conyngham in the 1850s, was, in fact, authored by Ingraham, a Maine native known for his romantic novels in the 1830s and 1840s.Observations of life along the Mississippi River, in Nashville, Natchez, the New Orleans. The renaming of this edition was a deliberate reference to Albion W. Tourgee's book A Fool's Errand, published a year earlier in 1879, a bestseller, and "the first literary work to deal with Reconstruction." (DAB). Howes I-50 and Clark III, p54 #58n, for first edition. Seller Inventory # 3733523
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NOT "A FOOL'S ERRAND": LIFE AND EXPERIENCE OF A NORTHERN GOVERNESS IN THE SUNNY SOUTH
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G. W. Carlton, NY, 1880
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Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Publishe's green cloth, gilt title spine, tan endpapers, 526 (2). Slight edgewear to boards. A nice, unsophisticated copy. Seller Inventory # 013054
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NOT "A FOOL'S ERRAND"/LIFE AND EXPERIENCE OF A NORTHERN GOVERNESS IN THE SUNNY SOUTH
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G. W. Carleton & Company, New York, 1880
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Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 526 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Corners bumped. Binding lightly rubbed. Foxing to pg. text block and throughout. Previous owner's name in pencil on front endpaper. Seller Inventory # 10391RG
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NOT 'A FOOL'S ERRAND.' Life and Experience of A Northern Governess in the Sunny South
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G. W. Carleton & Co, New York, 1880
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Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
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1st thus (See Sabin 34776). 526 pp + 2 pp advert at rear. 5" x 7 1/4" In form of letters purporting to be written by Kate Conyngham [pseud. of Rev. James Holt Ingraham]. Originally published in1860 under the title: The Sunny South. VG+ (sq & tight/gilt bright/minor extremity wear/sporadic foxing/poi label on front paste-down). Original green publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering. Seller Inventory # 13632
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