Maum Guinea, and her plantation "children;" or, Holiday-week on a Louisiana estate; a slave romance /
by Mrs. Metta V. Victor...
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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[New York, N.Y.] Beadle and Company, New York, N.Y.] [1861]
- Summary
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A tale of slave life on a Louisiana estate at Christmas time near the start of the Civil War.
- Note
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In publisher's beaded mauve cloth binding with blind-stamped ornamentation and gilt-stamped cover title.
Also issued in same year as Beadle's Dime novel no. 33.
This U.S. holiday issue not noted in Johanssen, House of Beadle and Adams, but cf. v. 3, p. 6, for description of this title issued in cloth binding without cover title; apparently analogous to "London special publication", Johanssen v. I, p.119, v. 3, p. 7.
"'Maum Guinea' is the publisher's holiday offering ... Beadle and Company, New York, 1861"--p. [i]
"Entered ... in the year 1861, by Beadle and Company ... Southern District of New York"--verso of t.p.
Cover title: Beadle's Christmas story. Maum Guinea.
- Physical Description
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[2], iv, [5]-215, [3] p. (the last 3 pages blank), [3] leaves of plates :
ill. ;
18 cm.
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