[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED First Edition of George Washington Cable's First Book: OLD CREOLE DAYS

[Charles Agvent]

CABLE, George Washington. OLD CREOLE DAYS. New York: Charles Scribner's 
Sons, 1879. First Edition. Decorated brown cloth. BAL 2330: First 
Printing. First state without the ads of Cable's first book. Estimates 
of the number of copies printed have ranged from 100 to about 3500 with 
1000 copies being likely. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED to "Mrs. W. R. 
Harmount/with the compliments of the author/G. W. Cable/New Orleans, 
March 13, 1880." Mrs. Harmount was the wife of W. R. Harmount, a 
lieutenant in the Union Army who was captured by the Confederates at 
Chancellorsville and sent to Libby Prison. He also attended the State 
Convention of the Colored People of Louisiana in January of 1865.Light 
wear to spine ends; some bubbling to cloth at bottom front corner. Near 
Fine. Light wear to spine ends; some bubbling to cloth at bottom front 
corner. Very Good to Near Fine. (#020416)        $750

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