I Go South : An Unprejudiced Visit to a Group of Cotton Mills by Shumway, Harry - 1930

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated from photographs by the author. Octavo. 90pp. Corners worn, small abrasion from erasure on front fly, page edges a bit soiled, very good lacking the dust jacket.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. First? Edition. First? Printing. good. 23 cm, 90, illus. with photographs by the author, name of previous owner, boards somewhat worn/soiled, small scuff on front board. Some soiling to pages. Introduction by Harford Powel, Jr. Shumway was hired by a group of Boston businessmen to go down to Alabama and write about what he heard and saw about a group of five cotton mills in the Chattahoochee Valley, Alabama, for which they were selling agents. He was chosen because he was a Yankee, a novelist, an unbiased and unopinionated person who is trained to write about people and would write his report withan open mind. Contents: I Go South; Children of the South; Three Old Men who Liked It; In the Mill; Not Help but Partners; Let's Go Places! ; Church and a Few Calls; Towels by the Million; What's being Done for the Young Folks; The Drift from the Farms; and The Last Word.

Paperback / softback. New.

Houghton Mifflin, 1930. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Scarce first edition in jacket with wear and tear, small edge chips.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First edition. Slight scuffing on front board, and a small stain on the title page, else near fine in a good dustwrapper with several small holes, and a little loss at the foot. A lively view of the cotton industry, written at the prompting of a business friend, and not devoid of interest. Very scarce in jacket.