LIBRARY OF SOUTHERN LITERATURE 1909 - 1913 17 - Volume Complete Set UNCOMMON
Item History & Price
You are bidding on a very uncommon COMPLETE SET (in 17 Volumes) of the Library of Southern Literature, edited by Joel Chandler Harris, Edwin Anderson Alderman, and Charles William Kent!
This set is offered as a true auction with no reserve, and shipping of this set as a securely-packaged 40+ pound box of books will be FREE to any US buyer, via US Postal Service Media Mail.
This is a set of 100+ year-old hardbound books in original bindings and endpapers, the first 16 volume...s of which were published between 1909 and 1913. The 17th volume, also included in this set, was a later "Supplement" to the earlier 16, and was published in 1923 and co-edited by John Calvin Metcalf.
These are all thick volumes (no dust jackets) of 450 pages or more each, in a range of conditions between Good and Very Good. These are NOT ex-library books and have always been privately owned. A few flaws of particular volumes will be described in more detail further below, but overall this is an intact and very much collectible set.
This is a landmark collection for anyone interested in deep study of the literature of the American South, particularly of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. This is an exhaustively curated anthology whose ambitious purpose, as stated in Charles W. Kent's Preface to Volume I, was "to present frankly and as fully as convenient the literary life of the whole South throughout its entire history and to leave the general reader or special student to draw such conclusions as he may see fit. In a word, the series is not intended to prove anything but to set forth much. It is to cover an imperial territory, and, in sheer time, the total existence of our American people."
Selections from the works of hundreds of authors are anthologized. The list is too vast to show here as it takes the entirety of Volume XV to give biographical sketches, but it reads like a Who's Who of eminent Americans of the South of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century (from the perspective of Southern scholars from the first couple decades of the 20th century). No in-depth study of the literature of the first couple centuries of the American South should do without examination of this massive multi-volume set.
All volumes have sewn bindings. Endpage hinges front and rear are reinforced with publisher's original brown tape. Some dust smudging and minor foxing is evident on page edges of some of the volumes. As for more details on particular flaws in, or notes about, some of the individual volumes -- these are shown below:
Volume I: Detached first front endpage, which remains with the volume.
Volume III: Minor hinge start at rear endpage but firmly bound overall.
Volume II: Pages torn between 690-697 only (the John C. Calhoun section); Minor hinge start at rear endpage but firmly bound overall.
Volume V: Small note by the Bank of Picayune for an $850 transaction dated March 29, 1930 is laid in, inside front (!). Some fraying at front and rear cloth foredges but overall an intact volume.
Volume VIII: Hinge starts at front and rear endpages, but firmly bound overall.
Volume XI: Detached first front endpage, which remains with the volume.
Volume XV (Biographical Dictionary Volume): Minor hinge start at rear endpage but firmly bound overall.
Volume XVI (Index & Bibliography Volume): Shelf-rubbing and some smudging to the exterior cloth; small scrape at first front endpage; hinge starting at the Introduction page.
Volume XVII (Supplement Volume): Minor hinge start at rear endpage but firmly bound overall.
Overall, this is an irreplaceable and ambitiously produced anthology of Southern Literature that will hold a truly unique place in your collection. Please ask any further questions you may have and we'll try to answer them before you bid. Thank you very much for looking and bidding!
This set is offered as a true auction with no reserve, and shipping of this set as a securely-packaged 40+ pound box of books will be FREE to any US buyer, via US Postal Service Media Mail.
This is a set of 100+ year-old hardbound books in original bindings and endpapers, the first 16 volume...s of which were published between 1909 and 1913. The 17th volume, also included in this set, was a later "Supplement" to the earlier 16, and was published in 1923 and co-edited by John Calvin Metcalf.
These are all thick volumes (no dust jackets) of 450 pages or more each, in a range of conditions between Good and Very Good. These are NOT ex-library books and have always been privately owned. A few flaws of particular volumes will be described in more detail further below, but overall this is an intact and very much collectible set.
This is a landmark collection for anyone interested in deep study of the literature of the American South, particularly of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. This is an exhaustively curated anthology whose ambitious purpose, as stated in Charles W. Kent's Preface to Volume I, was "to present frankly and as fully as convenient the literary life of the whole South throughout its entire history and to leave the general reader or special student to draw such conclusions as he may see fit. In a word, the series is not intended to prove anything but to set forth much. It is to cover an imperial territory, and, in sheer time, the total existence of our American people."
Selections from the works of hundreds of authors are anthologized. The list is too vast to show here as it takes the entirety of Volume XV to give biographical sketches, but it reads like a Who's Who of eminent Americans of the South of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century (from the perspective of Southern scholars from the first couple decades of the 20th century). No in-depth study of the literature of the first couple centuries of the American South should do without examination of this massive multi-volume set.
All volumes have sewn bindings. Endpage hinges front and rear are reinforced with publisher's original brown tape. Some dust smudging and minor foxing is evident on page edges of some of the volumes. As for more details on particular flaws in, or notes about, some of the individual volumes -- these are shown below:
Volume I: Detached first front endpage, which remains with the volume.
Volume III: Minor hinge start at rear endpage but firmly bound overall.
Volume II: Pages torn between 690-697 only (the John C. Calhoun section); Minor hinge start at rear endpage but firmly bound overall.
Volume V: Small note by the Bank of Picayune for an $850 transaction dated March 29, 1930 is laid in, inside front (!). Some fraying at front and rear cloth foredges but overall an intact volume.
Volume VIII: Hinge starts at front and rear endpages, but firmly bound overall.
Volume XI: Detached first front endpage, which remains with the volume.
Volume XV (Biographical Dictionary Volume): Minor hinge start at rear endpage but firmly bound overall.
Volume XVI (Index & Bibliography Volume): Shelf-rubbing and some smudging to the exterior cloth; small scrape at first front endpage; hinge starting at the Introduction page.
Volume XVII (Supplement Volume): Minor hinge start at rear endpage but firmly bound overall.
Overall, this is an irreplaceable and ambitiously produced anthology of Southern Literature that will hold a truly unique place in your collection. Please ask any further questions you may have and we'll try to answer them before you bid. Thank you very much for looking and bidding!
