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Hardcover. Condition: VG. 1st Edition. 58pp, illustrated with 6 full-page plates on glossy paper, including portraits and a coat of arms, and a large folded genealogical table, blue cloth spine and blue paper over boards covers, gilt spine titles, very clean and bright overall, with minor toning at pastedowns and endpapers. Inscribed, signed, dated by author at front fly, "Edgemont, May, 1952 / To a dear friend of long / standing, M____ V____ V____ , with / fond recollections and many / happy reunions / W. S. Snead." Chapters include England and Virginia: The Sneads Prior to the Nineteenth Century / West to Kentucky: John Smith Snead and his Family / Two Brothers: Thomas and Charles Scott Snead / The Sons of Charles Scott Snead / The Twentieth Century, and Appendices include The Sneads of England / Genealogy of the English Sneads / Genealogy of the Sneads of Accomac, Virginia, and Kentucky, with the genealogical table / Contemporary Affiliated Families / Extracts from an Address on General Charles Scott by Colonel Thomas L. Crittenden / A Speech by General Scott / Warrant of Appointment to Charles Scott Snead III / Air Medal Citation to William Scott Snead, Jr. Illustrations include The Snead Crest, the portrait of General Charles Scott after painting by Gilbert Stuart, the Home of Charles Scott Snead at Louisville, Kentucky, portraits of William Scott and Katherine Parker Snead, a view of the family home Edgemont, at North Garden, Virginia, and portraits of William Scott Snead, Jr., and Parker Snead. Interesting pencil note at bottom of page 35 indicates Parker Snead divorced first wife Cathleen South Castles, and remarried Osa, and was later killed in a plane crash in April, 1976, in Richmond, Virginia. Very scarce. Inscribed by Author(s).