HARRIS, Joel Chandler.

On the Plantation: A Story of a Georgia Boy's Adventures

Item #74543

HARRIS, Joel Chandler. On the Plantation: A Story of a Georgia Boy's Adventures during the War. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1892. 1st American ed. xii,233pp. Portrait frontis., illus. Orig. pictorial cloth. Very good. BAL 7124. Wright III: 2489. Includes "Something about Sandy Claus" not in the London edition. "A fictional treatment of Harris's early teen-age years as printer's devil for The Countryman, a remarkable country paper roughly modeled after The Spectator that was published during the war years by Joseph Addison Turner at Turnworld Plantation near Eatonton, Georgia. Harris dedicated On the Plantation to Turner"-In Tall Cotton, 80. Includes "Deserters and Runaways" and "The Relief Committee" about the Civil War.

Price: $250.00