SONS OF THE SOUTH. (Dust jacket front panel title: "Sons of the South; Profiles and portraits of one hundred men, who contributed to the greatness of the nation and the glory of the South.")

First edition (as stated upon copyright page) - PUBLISHER'S REVIEW COPY. [10], 212 pages. Hardcover: H 28.5cm x L 21.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed; some scuffing, nicks, and short tears at edges; spine head tearing with tape repair to verso; foxing and some staining to white rear panel; front flap is not price-clipped. Reddish-brown cloth spine; gray cloth boards. Faint staining to text block's top edge. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. Laid-in at front endpaper is publisher's review slip as well as folded two page promotional letter on Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. official stationery. Graduating from Mississippi A&M in 1911 and from Harvard Law School circa 1913, Clayton Rand (1891-1971) passed the Mississippi Bar in 1918 and soon thereafter purchased the Neshoba Democrat newspaper in Philadelphia, Mississippi, The DeKalb Independent in Kemper County, plus another weekly paper in Tunica County. However Rand sold his newspaper operations by the mid-1920s and moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 1925 where he purchased The Dixie Press and started The Dixie Guide weekly in Gulfport. Rand may be best remembered now as the author of the autobiographical INK ON MY HANDS first published in 1940. Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 3.25 pounds (1.47 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. {MS-Shelf#2}.…