The Making of a Southerner -- SIGNED by Lumpkin
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Third printing 1947. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 248. Includes sources. Previous owner name inked on front endpaper. Bound in blue-green cloth, blind stamped illustration on front and gold lettering on the spine. Dust jacket price clipped, chipped edges and short tears, with mild foxing on rear panel. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, dated 3 December 1959. Very Good+ / Good+. Item #3569
A powerful memoir that draws on her family's history of slave ownership using slave inventories, Ku Klux Klan records and personal experience with the family's Black domestics. This copy was owned by Roderick Bissell Jones, president of the Beardsley and Memorial Library, and a long-serving officer with the Winsted Historical Society (Connecticut). Dust jacket now preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
Price: $100.00