[AUTHOR'S COPY] [SIGNED] THE RISE OF THE NEW SOUTH [THE HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA VOLUME XVII]

Philadelphia: George Barrie & Sons, 1905. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Signed. Quarto; in green calf over green buckram; xxi, [2], 3-491, including Appendices and List of Illustrations; with color frontispiece and illustrations throughout; this is Philip Alexander Bruce's own copy (acquired from his family) with his bookplate on the pastedown and his signature dated in the year of publcation " Philip Alexander Bruce | Lancaster Gate, London | March 1st 1905". on the first blank leaf Mr. Bruce has penned an approving quote about the book from Owen Wister's "My Friendship with Roosevelt", initialed P.A.B.". Very Good binding.