by Rosewell Page

New York:, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923.

First edition.

Fine in beige linen-backed cloth over slate grey paper boards; in a near fine printed dust jacket showing minor wear and soiling.

A tight, possibly unread copy of this biography of the lawyer and author by his brother.

Octavo. [210] pages. Frontispiece portrait and one other illustration.

Page popularized the plantation tradition genre of Southern writing, which told of an idealized version of life before the Civil War, with contented slaves working for beloved masters and their families.

A scarce biography of this once popular Virginia author who served under President Woodrow Wilson as U.S. ambassador to Italy for six years (1913-1919).

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