Carpe Diem Fine Books

A Carolina Rice Plantation of the Fifties

Smith, Alice R. Huger, illustrator; Sass, Herbert Ravenel, Narrative; Smith, D. E. Huger

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; xii; 30 paintings (recto only); 97pp. A Fine copy in original red stamped pictorial olive cloth in a somewhat worn slipcase. SIGNED by the illustrator on contents page. Contents include a Preface by Alice Ravenal Huger Smith; 'The Rice Coast: Its Story and Its Meaning' by Herbert Ravenel Sass and 'A Plantation Boyhood' - from the unpublished memoirs of D.E. Huger Smith. Smith was an American painter and printmaker and one of the leading figures in the so-called Charleston Renaissance. Item #22737

Price: $500.00