1897 New Orleans SIGNED Old Creole Days by GW Cable Slavery Racism Louisiana

1897 New Orleans SIGNED Old Creole Days by GW Cable Slavery Racism Louisiana

 

George Washington Cable was a 19^th-century American writer who is best recognized by his works on Creole life and native New Orleans culture. His best collection of works, eventually titled ‘Old Creole Days’, included seven short stories describing French Creole family life and the multi-cultural society of the pre-Civil War American south – racism, slavery, and immigration. These stories, which were first published in Scribner’s Monthly, include:

• Cafe des Exiles
• Belles Demoiselles Plantation
• “Posson Jone'”
• Jean-ah Poquelin
• ‘Tite Poulette
• ‘Sieur George
• Madame Delicieuse

 

This 1897 edition includes the author’s inscription!

 

Item number: #14330

Price: $499

 

CABLE, George Washington

 

Old Creole days.

 

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897. 1^st edition thus

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [6], 234
  • 8 photogravures
• Provenance: Author’s Inscription – W. Cable, ‘98
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
  • Decorative cloth
• Size: ~10in X 7in (25.5cm x 17.5cm)

 

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