In Old Natchez by Catharine Van Court - 1937

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1937 Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, NY. 1937. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O bookplate on the front pastedown. Book Condition: Very Good; light tip bumping; light dust soiling to boards. DJ: Fair; NOT Price Clipped ($3.00); missing pieces at head, tail, and tips; rubbing to panels; wear through paper at flap folds and spine shoulders. Orange cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering and borders on spine and floral design on front board. Tinted textblock top.119 pp 8vo. This book was designed to show off the old houses in Natchez, MS and the author who grew up on a Natchez plantation is an expert. She tells the story of each house that has stood for more than one hundred years and are models of stately beauty each of which carries wounds from the Civil War. A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.