The Priestess of the Hills by Susan Fontaine Sawyer - 1928

Boston: Meador Pub. Co., 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. the life and times of old Negroes on a Southern Plantation in Mississippi and the faith and love the nurses of the white children entertained for their owners offspring. Bound in dark green cloth, gold lettering, lettering faded on spine, light staining, otherwise a good copy.

Hardcover, octavo, pp. 262 plus three pages of ads. Frontispiece and three other illustrations. Previous owner name on free front endpaper. Some rubbing on the fore-edge of the rear board, and a half-moon shaped tear at the fore-edge of one of the ad pages (loss of margin, but no loss of text). GOOD and sound in the publisher's green cloth with gilt stamped spine and front cover titles. POOR only dust jacket is quite weary, with moderate soiling and a 3 inch vertical red rear panel stain. There is extensive chipping at spine ends, edges, and fold points. Jacket has perished at crown of spine and across most of the front panel's top edge, though the illustration of the bat-like cover character is not affected. Protected against further wear by a new sheet of archival mylar. Withal, a serviceable copy of this elusive title.

Meador Publishing Co.:, 1928. 262 pages, illustrated. This book "depicts the life at the time of which I write, of the old Negroes on a southern plantation in Mississippi, and the daith and love the fond nurses of the white children entertained for their owners' offspring. I have not overdrawn this beautiful faith that held the love and respect of these children, to the devoted slaves of our southern people." VERY GOOD- HARDCOVER, green cloth covers, letering is bright on the cover and spine.. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket Present.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.