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Reprint, Autumn 1980

The South is the setting for new editions of three books recently published by Georgia: Suwannee River: Strange Green Land by Cecile Hulse Matschat, with a foreword by Pat Waiters, first published in 1938 in the Rivers of America series [$17.50 cloth, $5.95 paper]; On the Plantation, "A. Story of a Georgia Boy's Adventures during the War," by Joel Chandler Harris, with a foreword by Erskine Caldwell, a work which first appeared in 1892 [$15.00 cloth, $4.95 paper]; and The Gardener's Calendar, "An Eighteenth-Century Classic of Southern Gardening," by Robert Squibb, the first edition of which appeared in 1787 [$9.95 cloth]. Illinois has reprinted a paperback edition of Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865—1890 by Howard N. Rabinowitz as a volume in its Blacks in the New World series edited by August Meier [$7.95], Noted historian C. Vann Woodward called the hardcover edition of this work "the most thorough and important study we have had on any period or sample of race relations in the South." South Carolina is offering a paperback edition of George C. Rogers, Jr.'s Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys, an account of the period between 1730 and 1820 when Charleston was one of America's most dominant cities and the Pinckneys that city's most prominent family [$4.95]. Bantam has republished Dolly Freed's Possum Living, an account of "living easy off the land without a job and almost no money" [2.50].

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