PENNINGTON, Patience

A Woman Rice Planter

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. 8vo, green cloth, black titling to cover, gilt titling to spine, 450 pp. An epistolary memoir by South Carolina widow Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (aka “Patience Pennington”), describing her efforts to manage and revive her family’s post–Civil War rice plantations and her relationships with formerly enslaved Black laborers along the Lowcountry coast. Bit of foxing to pages, spine leaning, gift inscriptions to front endpaper, wear to edges and spine tips, rubbing to spine, a bright copy. Item #14395

Price: $40.00