The Slave States (Before the Civil War)
by: Frederick Law Olmsted

Hardcover. NY, Capricorn Books/G. P. Putnam's Sons, reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with $2.50 on flap, 255 pages. Edited by Harvey Wish. Originally written by Olmsted in the 1850s as a series of articles in the New York Times, these essays became "the most important source of information about the life & customs of the slaveholding states of the South." Bookplate on inside front cover otherwise clean.