ST. ELMO Augusta J Evans - RARE 1867 Boxed NY Edition

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ST. ELMO Augusta J Evans - RARE 1867 Boxed NY Edition Description:The most popular 19th century novel by a woman. is an 1867 First Edition, printed in New York two years after the Civil War ended (see below).Boxed in a slipcase. In very good condition. No foxing. No inscrptions. Wear to box. Sun fading to spine. Boards nice and clean, spine tight. Some 8 or 10 creased pages (improper or drunken use of the slipcase, methinks) are rather a distraction from an otherwise very good book overall (see photo). Very readable bright pages which with a little more exposure (due to quality of paper) would be hopelessly toned. The slipcase has done a very nice job of preserving this important novel. ---From the Alabama Hall of Fame website, of which Augusta Evans Wilson is a member: "Augusta Evans Wilson has been called the "foremost Southern novelist of her time." Certainly she was the finest in Alabama, writing for the best-seller lists Inez, , Beulah , St. Elmo , Infelice , Vashti , At the Mercy of Tiberius , A Speckled Bird , and Devota . "But she achieved fame in other areas as well. As a propagandist she wrote, unsigned, a series of fiery articles that appeared in the Mobile newspaper in the fall of 1859. Her most famous piece of propaganda was Macaria , a novel smuggled into the North for publication, slipped into the hands of Union read more

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