American novelist (1844-1925) who served in the Confederate Army and later wrote of violence and death, of racial intermarriage, and of social contradictions and complexities. He is recognized today as one the South's most acute social critics. Signed book: The Grandissimes. Later printing. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. Hardcover, 7 x 10, 491 pages. Signed opposite the half-title page in ink with a verse, "Lady fair and true-heart friend, / She to whom this book belongs, / She to whom these lines are penned; / Dear. sweet singer of sweet songs. G. W. Cable, Northampton, Mass., Feb'y 1900." Autographic condition: very fine. Book condition: G/None, with a tear to p. 175, moderate-to-heavy rubbing to the pictorial boards, and some minor scattered staining.
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