BRIERFIELD; PLANTATION HOME OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.

Everett, Frank E., Jr. [Frank Edgar Everett, Jr.], 1910-1986. [Jefferson Davis, 1808-1889.]

ISBN 10: 0878050027 / ISBN 13: 9780878050024

Published by Hattiesburg, MS: University and College Press of Mississippi, [July] 1971., 1971

First printing (not stated per publisher's usual practice) INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xii, 153 pages. Hardcover: H 22cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket soiled and toned with some staining; slight surface abrasion to panels and spine causes some lettering loss; small slender chips along flap folds; small chip at rear panel's bottom left and at front flap's bottom edge; front flap retains publisher's printed price at top right corner. Yellowish-green cloth; red and black lettering to spine; light toning to boards; slender abrasion and small stain to boards' top edges. Foxing to text block edges; small stains to top edge and fore-edge which fractionally affect leaves at their margins. light foxing to interior leaves. Binding is firm. A very good- copy in only a good dust jacket with the author's five-line blue ink inscription "With very best wishes | to my longtime friend | Libber Pritchard. | Frank E. Everett Jr | April 14, 1972" on half-title page. With endpaper maps, frontispiece, Preface and Acknowledgements essay, b/w illustrations, Selected Bibliography, and Appendix "Genealogy of the Davis Family." {MS Shelf #9} ISBN 0878050027. Seller Inventory # JUL23DH-03166

Synopsis:

This is the story of a house, "Brierfield," and incidentally of a man, Jefferson Davis, and his family. The author traces the story of "Brierfield" from its construction in the antebellum period to its final disappearance in the twentieth century, a victim of war, floods, and fire. Most people associate Jefferson Davis with "Beauvoir," his home on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the years after 1865, but "Brierfield" was his home during the most productive years of his life. We see Davis here as a young planter, a United States Representative and Senator, a Mexican War hero, United States Secretary of War, and President of the Confederate States of America. The tangled web of relationships involving Davis, his second wife, Varina Howell of Natchez, and his older brother and substitute father, Joseph Davis of nearby "Hurricane Plantation," unfolds against the physical setting of "Brierfield."

From the Inside Flap: The intriguing history of the home (and the family) from which Jefferson Davis was called to become the President of the Confederate States of America

Bibliographic Details

Title: BRIERFIELD; PLANTATION HOME OF JEFFERSON ...
Publisher: Hattiesburg, MS: University and College Press of Mississippi, [July] 1971.
Publication Date: 1971
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition