Very Scarce Signed
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Notes: The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian explores Frederick Law Olmstead's journey through the South just before the Civil War. (Olmstead later became the great American landscape architect of the 19th century.)
Horwitz is probably best-known for Confederates in the Attic.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Horwitz on the title page. Signed copies of this book are going to be scarce. Horwitz died suddenly at age 60, just two weeks after this book was published. This copy has excellent provenance, coming from the Parnassus Books first edition club, with their information sheet laid in.
Publication: New York: Penguin Press, 2019.
ISBN: 9781101980286
Item No: #362236
Price: $300