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The Clansman; an historical romance of the Ku Klux Klan / by Thomas Dixon, Jr., illustrated by Arthur I. Keller.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 D6468 905c
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Fiction.
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- ).
- Reconstruction--Fiction.
- Reconstruction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Holland, R. A. (Robert Afton), 1844-1909 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 14 unnumbered pages, 374 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates. : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- [First Edition.].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905.
- Contents:
- Book I. The Assassination
- Book II. The Revolution
- Book III. The Reign of Terror
- Book IV. The Ku Klux Klan.
- Notes:
- "Copyright, 1905 by Thomas Dixon, Jr."
- "'The Clansman' is the second book of a series of historical novels planned on the Race Conflict. 'The Leopard's Spots' was the statement in historical outline of the conditions from the enfranchisement of the Negro to his disfranchisement. 'The Clansman' develops the true story of the 'Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy,' which overturned the Reconstruction régime."--To the Reader.
- Novel was immediately adapted by its author as a play (1905) and later turned into the silent film "The Birth of the Nation" (1915) by D. W. Griffith.
- Red cloth boards with white double ruled border and lettering on front cover.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has [1] loose leaf headed "Author's Presentation Copy" to Rev. R. A. Holland, D.D. signed Thomas Dixon Jr. taped to front free endpaper.
- OCLC:
- 624730
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