Chaplin thomas benjamin (6 Ergebnisse)

A Pictoral Soft Cover. Zustand: Good, No Better. look great no marks BUT spine crack at p.559. Grandpa's History Collection.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Printing. A very good copy of the first softcover printing, signed by Theodore Rosengarten on the half-title page. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding is bright and fresh in appearance. The first few pages of the front matter, due to a printing error, were not properly cut at the edges and thus protrude slightly from the book. A lovely copy, uncommon signed. Signed by Author(s).…

Zustand: good. First Edition. First Printing. 750, endpaper maps, footnotes, family charts, note on sources, index, boards somewhat worn/soiled, pencil erasure on fr endppr. In this brilliant account of life in the antebellum South, Rosengarten brings readers a masterful piece of history told from two perspectives. Tombee is the biography of Thomas Chaplin, the unlucky slave master and proprietor of Tombee Plantation. The book also contains the personal journal Chaplin kept, providing a relentless study of the horror of plantation slavery.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good condition. First edition. Stated. First Printing. 750 pages. Footnotes. Maps. Endpaper Maps. Family Charts. Note on Selected Sources. Index. Pencil erasure residue on front endpaper, boards somewhat worn and soiled.Tombee was an unlucky slave owner and cotton planter on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. His real name was Thomas B. Chaplin, and we know him because of his plantation journal, kept between 1845 and 1858. The fascination of this journal is enhanced by notes that Chaplin added periodically after 1865, bringing the lives of his characters up-to-date. Not unnaturally, he compared his poverty after the Civil War with antebellum opulence, lamenting the one, deploring the other.Theodore Rosengarten has made accessible the last years of an American aristocracy. Besides containing a history of the Carolina Sea Islands during the second golden age of cotton, the book is a study of the dull horror of plantation slavery. In this brilliant account of life in the antebellum South, Rosengarten brings readers a masterful piece of history told from two perspectives. Tombee is the biography of Thomas Chaplin, the unlucky slave master and proprietor of Tombee Plantation. The book also contains the personal journal Chaplin kept, providing a relentless study of the horror of plantation slavery. …

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. Edited and annotated by Susan W. Walker. Very large, very thick, heavy softcover, glossy yellow background with purple illustration of flowers at center front, red, purple and yellow lettering, praise on back wrapper from Robert Coles, Studs Terkel and others. Mint.