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Anonymous [TOURGEE, Albion Winegar]. /THE VETERAN AND HIS PIPE/. Bound 
in original blue "pebbled" cloth with gilt stamped titling. Published by 
Belford, Clarke & Co., Chicago and New York. 1885. 1st edition, small 
8vo, pp. 269. Boards bumped, scuffed & showing some light soiling. 
Endpapers splitting, but hinges tight. Contents clean, if age-toned; 
else not quite very good condition.

Lawyer, author, and political activist Albion Winegar Tourgee 
(1838-1905) was a native of Ohio and veteran of the Union Army. He moved 
to Greensboro, N.C. in 1865 and worked as an advocate for newly freed 
slaves. He was a Republican Party official in N.C., and a Superior Court 
judge from 1868 to 1874. In 1870 he wrote a letter, published in the/ 
New York Tribune,/ which described in detail the activities of the Ku 
Klux Klan in Greensboro. After leaving North Carolina in 1879, he 
returned to public prominence in 1897 when he argued /Plessy v. Ferguson 
/before the Supreme Court on behalf of Homer J. Plessy. In the same 
year, he was appointed U.S. consul to France. He died in that country in 
1905.
     
He authored a number of books (including /Bricks Without Straw/), and 
newspaper articles, especially during the period 1879 to 1897. This book 
contains a series of satirical newspaper columns, published in New York 
and Chicago. Each is a story of an old Union Army veteran talking to his 
pipe (because no one else will pay him any attention). Scarce item.

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