[Rarebooks] FS: LIFE IN SANTO DOMINGO

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

(Settler, A. pseud).Richard B. Kimball, intro. 
LIFE IN SANTO DOMINGO. BY A SETTLER. New York: 
G.W. Carleton, 1873. 308 pp. 12mo. Red cloth 
decorated in gilt and black, boards ruled in 
black, beveled edges. First edition this title. 
First issued in 1863 under the title "In the 
tropics." Sabin 75158. LCP Afro-Americana 3584. 
Wright II: 879n. Blockson 3251. Cundall 354.3c. 
Smith, Amer.Travellers Abroad: a bibliography 
(2nd ed), F1. Bissainthe, Dictionnaire de 
bibliographie haïtienne 6364.

Authorship is still in question. The American 
Antiquarian Society along with Notable American 
Women (1971 ed.) attribute the work to Cora 
Montgomery, which was the pseudonym of Jane Maria 
McManus Cazneau (1807-1878) who with other 
Americans living in Santo Domingo tried to hype 
colonization. The Library Company of 
Philadelphia, along with Wright, Smith (2nd ed. 
of American Travellers Abroad), and NUC pre-1956 
attribute the work to Joseph Warren Fabens 
(1821-1875) who went to homestead in Santo 
Domingo in 1859 with his family and was an ardent 
advocate of annexation by the U. S. Both were 
involved in trying to gain control of the Samaná 
territory, and Fabens was head of the Samana Bay 
Company.

Slight spine slant, spine ends with small chips 
and tears, boards rubbed, rear hinge starting, 
owner's name on endpapers; a good or better copy. 
[35711] $100.00

Regards,

Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
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East Jewett, NY 12424
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