THE DELIVERANCE. A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields.
With Illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1904. Original red cloth.
First Edition of this tale of the Reconstruction Era -- the author's fifth book, and the concluding volume in a trilogy (following VOICE OF THE PEOPLE of 1900 and THE BATTLE-GROUND of 1902) that deals with life in Virginia from the end of the Civil war until the turn of the century. THE DELIVERANCE deals with the Blake family, prosperous landowners for over two centuries, who after the war are defrauded by the white overseer managing their property and wind up having to switch homes with him -- he buys their estate at auction, while the Blakes move into his former house. Ellen Glasgow, born and raised in Richmond, would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1942, for IN THIS OUR LIFE.
This is a fine, bright copy of the first book that brought Glasgow some real popular success. Item #11820
Price: $200.00