A FOOL'S ERRAND

New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1880. A FOOL'S ERRAND- by One of the Fools (Albion W. Tourgee)- Fords, Howard and Hulbert-NY- 1880-(c1879) 1st Edition- Hardcover:-12mo- VG/ no dj- original publishers brick red cloth with black design and title on cover and gilt title on spine-minimal rubbing on head and foot of spine-391pp + 4pp ads for books- ffep missing-otherwise a nice bright copy- brown coated endpapers-textblock is square and tight-ex-library from the The Mississquoi Museum, Stanbridge-East, Quebec.-SEE PHOTOS- ..." the author is Albion Winegar Tourgee who was "an Ohion, served in the Union army and in 1865 moved his family to Noth Carolina were he was a carpetbagging lawyer. " "The book is mostly based on atual incidents that occurred during the reconstruction period in the South-This book was admired by the public and the critics. The fool's errand was the. Attempt to rebuild the South after the Civil War in the image of the North. Tourgee discusses such groups as the new Klu Klux Klan in the passages of social history interwoven with the story of a Union soldier who moves to a Southern plantation ... (the South Klu Klux Klan the South Civil War reconstruction novel plantation life the Union Confederacy)". Fiction-history-Americana-South-slavery-reconstruction-Civil War (2977) . 1st Edition. Illustrated Cloth. VG/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.