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The Genius of the West. A Monthly Magazine of Western Literature. February, 1856. Vol. 5. No. 2
Fuller, Metta V.; Piatt, Carrie; Burrows, J. Bryson; De Ever, Gertrude et al.
Editore: Wm. T. Coggeshall and Geo. True, Editors and perhaps Publishers, Cincinnati, 1856
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Da: Mare Booksellers ABAA, IOBA, Dover, NH, U.S.A.Mare Booksellers ABAA, IOBA
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Aggiungi al carrelloWraps. Condizione: Good. Illustrated wraps. Pagination runs 33-64. A later issue of this magazine, (only five volumes were published, the last number being July of 1856), devoted to literature and history relating to the American West, including Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, etc. It changed editorship/ownership a few times, and according to The Magazine of Western History, Volume 8, at most 3000 copies of any issue were ever published. This issue contains a piece by J. Bryson Burrows describing Southern plantations, "planters" and African-Americans working and living on the plantations. Burrows is lavish in his descriptives for the manners and looks of the planters, but heavily embraces stereotypes in his description of the lives of African-Americans, despite his apparent distaste for the practice of slavery. GOOD condition. Magazine cropped close along the margins. Covers toned and soiled, with some staining. General wrinkling to the covers. Chipping and loss to the wrapper along the spine.…
