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Published by Privately published, Sumter, S.C., 1931
Seller: Live Oak Booksellers, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small 4to. (24 cm.) xiii[1]2-145p. Frontispiece black and white silhouette image presumably of Isaac Hardy plus six black and white photos of letters. Bibliography and Index. Green cloth with gilt letters on the front cover and the spine. Just touches of wear to extremities with noting rubbed through, cloth clean, gilt somewhat dulled, all illustrations in fine condition, newsprint transfer to two pages, previous owner's signature on front free endpaper {N. G. Osteen), else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. An expanded form of text originally submitted as a Master?s thesis at the University of South Carolina, this book was published with the assistance of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Isaac Harby (1788?1828), from Charleston, South Carolina, was a teacher, playwright, literary critic, journalist, newspaper editor, and advocate of reforms in Judaism. His ideas were some of the precedents behind the development of Reform Judaism. This appears to be the only book published by Lucius Clifton Moise (1881-1967), a Sumter, SC music educator. The signature of the book?s owner [N. G. Osteen] appears to be that of Noah Graham Osteen (1843-1936), founder of Sumter, S.C.?s newspaper WATCHMAN AND SOUTHRON [now called ITEM].