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  First Edition of Marcus M. Wilkerson's Thomas Duckett Boyd: The Story of a Southern Educator; Annotated by Leroy S. Boyd and Inscribed by Anne Boyd Grayson to Philemon Tecumseh Sherman

  WILKERSON, Marcus M. [William Tecumseh Sherman].

  Thomas Duckett Boyd: The Story of a Southern Educator.

  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1935.

  First edition of this biography of a Louisiana State University professor; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original boards, top stain red, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Thomas Duckett Boyd, illustrated with eight additional black and white photographs. Inscribed by the subject's daughter Anne Boyd Grayson on the front free endpaper, "To Hon P. Tecumseh Sherman with deep appreciation for his unfailing friendship to my beloved father - Anne Boyd Grayson - May 1935." P. T. Sherman's bookplate is adhered to the front free endpaper beneath the inscription. The book is extensively annotated throughout by the subject's son Leroy S. Boyd, which is explained in a typed letter signed by him to Sherman laid in. One page on Interstate Commerce Commission stationary, the letter reads in full, "Dear Mr. Sherman: I am returning to day your copy of the Life of Thomas Duckett Boyd. While the corrections I have made mar the book, still I think they are absolutely necessary. The author never submitted proofs to any member of my family, and drew upon his imagination for certain things said about my father, David F. Boyd. I trust you are well and enjoying life. Sincerely yours, Leroy S. Boyd." In very good condition with light bumping to the crown and foot of the spin...

  Price: $475.00     Item Number: 145960

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