Author: Bell Irvin Wiley
Publisher: Memphis State College Press, 1956
Binding: hardcover
Condition: VG/none
Price: $25.00
ISBN: Ø
CVB Inv: 00230
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Description:
Hardcover. Condition: very good. No dust jacket. Cover has minor shelf wear head and tail of spine. Octavo; xii + 121 pp. Gilt lettering on grey buckram boards. Book plate of previous owner inside front cover, date “January 26, 1970” added in red ballpoint ink. Text includes small marginalia and occasional brief underlining in pencil. Quire of b/w photographs and engravings. Binding and hinges are tight.
This text offers something rare in books: a glimpse of the mind of a previous reader. Handwritten marginalia (in pencil) mark passages that describe various character traits of Jefferson Davis, emphasizing positive ones. At the top of the back free endpaper, a note in a neat cursive hand in red ink reads:
“2/3 of Alabamians owned no slaves –” Dummersell – p. 239
Why should they have a feeling of guilt?
A second compact hand in blue ink responds: Honey, they don’t!
