Description
The first edition of I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition, by “Twelve Southerners,” including Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Alan Tate, and more.
Octavo, xx, [2], 359pp, [3]. Green cloth, title stamped in gilt. The first printing, with “First Edition / K-E” on the copyright page. Top edge dyed red. Sunning to the spine, offsetting to front endpapers. Text block solid.
Bookplate of “Richard Gibson Hensley” on the front pastedown, a member of the World War II “Monuments Men,” and library archivist.
The essays in this work include: Reconstructed but Unregenerate by John Crowe Ransom; A Mirror for Artists by Donald Davidson; The Irrepressible Conflict by Frank Lawrence Owsley; Education Past and Present by John Gould Fletcher; A Critique of the Philosophy of Progress by Lyle H. Lanier; Remarks on the Southern Religion by Allen Tate; Whither Southern Economy? by Herman Clarence Nixon; The Hind Tit by Andrew Nelson Lytle; The Legacy of the Civil War by Robert Penn Warren; Who Owns America? by Henry Blue Kline; The Philosophy of the New South by John Donald Wade; and Not in Memoriam, But in Defense by Stark Young.
