The Genuine Book of Nullification: Being a True Not an Apocryphal History, Chapter and Verse, of the Several Examples of the Recognition and Enforcement of that Sovereign State Remedy, by the Different States of this Confederacy, from 1798 Down to the Present Day. (As originally published in the Charleston Mercury) To which are added the opinions of distinguished statesmen, on state rights doctrines

First edition. Octavo. Brown printed wrappers. [4], 155pp., lacking pages 15-20 due to binding error. A couple of chips and a few small holes on the wraps, spine partially perished and a tear on the first blank leaf and one internal page (107-108), but a sound and attractive, very good copy. Perkins first published these essays as part of a series in the *Charlotte Mercury* under the pseudonym "Hampden," shortly before being elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives. He would later serve as Governor of South Carolina when it became the first state to secede from the United States. This pamphlet is Inscribed on the front wrap to Henry William de Saussure: "Judge Desaussure with the Author's best respects." De Saussure was a Swiss citizen appointed the Second Director of the U.S. Mint by George Washington and was a co-sponsor and early trusty of the University of South Carolina. He was a Federalist voice of moderation in South Carolina who strongly opposed nullification but was eventually drown out State’s Rights supporters, including John C. Calhoun, who clerked at de Saussure’s law office. A compelling association between two sides of the Nullification debate is South Carolina in the years before the Civil War.…