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Let me Lie, Being in the Main an Ethnological Account of the Remarkable Commonwealth of Virginia and the Making of Its History. / James Branch Cabell.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection F227 .C213
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virginia--History.
- Virginia.
- History.
- Virginia--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 286 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
- Manufacture:
- New York : Manufactured in the U. S. A. by H. Wolff.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Company, 1947.
- Contents:
- An Editorial Note: About Murder in Self-Defence.
- The Prologue: Quiet Along the Potomac.
- Part One: The First Virginian.
- Part Two: Myths of the Old Dominion.
- Part Three: Colonel Esmond of Virginia.
- Part Four: Concerns Heirs and Assigns.
- Part Five: Mr. Ritchie's Richmond.
- Part Six: Almost Touching the Confederacy.
- Part Seven: General Lee of Virginia.
- Part Eight: Is of Southern Ladies.
- Part Nine: "Published in Richmond, Virginia".
- Part Ten: Miss Glasgow of Virginia.
- An Epilogue: As to Our Life and Letters.
- Notes:
- With half-title.
- "Copyright, 1947 by James Branch Cabell."
- "Designed by Stefan Salter."
- "Sundry portions of this ethnological treatise concerning the State of Virginia, it may be remarked, have been printed before today, in sundry periodicals, under the pen name of Branch Cabell. This was an abbreviation which I adopted in 1932 through motives of logic; and which, with the publication of 'There Were Two Pirates,' I was led to put by, in some part by the advice of my publishers, but above all because of a selfish liking for personal comfort ... And so, when rearranging the contents of this monograph - during my at least comparative maturity in 1946 - I have chosen to usurp all that which Branch Cabell contributed thereto."--P. xi.
- Green cloth covered boards lettered in yellow on spine with Farrar medallion stamped in yellow on front cover.
- OCLC:
- 477107
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