INSCRIBED TO HIS NIECE

Bonaventure.

New York: Scribner's, 1888.

Price: $550.00


About the item

First Edition. vii, 314, [8, ads]pp. 8vo. INSCRIBED TO HIS NIECE. Original purple cloth stamped in red. About fine. BAL 2346.

Item #321001

Inscribed to his niece on ffep "To Kate from Uncle George with love and good wishes October 1888."

Bonaventure is Cable's first book on the Cajuns and is described as an "Acadian pastoral" in the bayou country west of New Orleans. In 12885 he moved from Louisiana to Northhampton, Mass beacuse he showed sympathy for racial equality and opposition to Jim Crow,