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Wake-Brook House, Published 1981. Hardcover, 194, [1] pp.; 22 cm; reprint of the 1966 Vantage Press first edition; illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
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In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Boards covered in printed cotton, a large-scale floral in red, black and tan on a cream ground, quarter bound in black cloth with gilt lettering and a gilt rule on spine. Mild bumping to edges and corners, spine mildly cocked. Binding tight. Pages lightly toned, otherwise unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket, a cigar-store Indian figure against a stippled ground. Chipping at head and foot of spine, several nicks and tears of an inch or less, and creasing along edges. Toning heaviest to flaps and edges, with light scuffing and soiling overall. Light rub to lettering on front panel. Price of $6.00 present, not clipped. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Cox began this as a single letter to a nephew in Arizona who had named his new baby Yancey, after Cox's father. Requests for more followed, and the sequence became a documented family history reaching back three hundred years. Harmon Cox, first of the line in North Carolina, built a hearth on the Randolph County homestead in 1751; his descendants freed their slaves in the 1840s, twenty-seven years before emancipation. The Civil War chapters are the unusual part. North Carolina Quakers were conscripted into the Confederate army despite their pacifism, and Cox follows Yancey through the warehouse at the fort, a bayonet wound, the escape across Deep River and the trek home. Two pages of authorities run from Burke's peerages and Hotten's List of Emigrants to George Fox's Journal and the Smyth-Nibley Papers at the New York Public Library. The boards are covered in printed cotton furnishing fabric rather than trade book cloth, small-batch work of a kind a private press orders and a trade publisher does not. WorldCat records only the 1966 Vantage Press first edition; this Wake-Brook House reprint is not separately catalogued there. Contents: Preface; Meet Yancey Cox; A True Story That Nearly Ruined Me; Family Influence - Your Kin and Mine; Yancey's First American Forebear; Yancey's First North Carolina Forebear; Harmon and Jane Choose Their Homestead; They Build Their Home; Harmon Helps Kill the "Stamp Act"; The Circuit Riders; Harmon Helps Organize the "Regulators"; Early Folklore - "Sayings" and "Remedies"; Harmon and the War for Independence; A Tragic Romance; Our Coat of Arms - The Crest; Our Slaves Set Free Twenty-Seven Years Early; Eunice Loses Harmon; The Bombardment of Fort Sumter; The Hunter Catches Yancey; Yancey and the Boys Escape; Crossing Deep River - The Last Big Hurdle; News Leaks Out - "The Boys Are Home"; The Hunter Meets His Fate; Postwar Poverty - And the Comeback; Nancy - The Real Girl Yancey Married; Nancy Lowdermilk Had a Pedigree; Yancey and Nancy Take Over the Plantation; Call for Yancey Cox; Everything Else and a Surgeon Too; The Old Log Schoolhouse; The Yancey School of "Learning by Doing"; Typical Homespun Humor; Our Family Social Life; How My Sisters Started Up Housekeeping; How Mother Got Results on the Farm; Wheat-Thrashin' and Corn Shuckin'; The Annual Camp Meetings; If I Hadn't Seen It I Wouldn't Believe It; Now This Was My Day; We All Felt Like the Lord Had Passed By; Butchering on the Farm; Heritage Responsibility; The Big Fox Hunt; The Fox Hunt Aftermath - The Dog Trial; Individual Initiative Above Everything Else; The Girl's Day in the Old Swimmin' Hole; The Big Coon Fight; Wake Up America - The Yellow Light Is Flashing; The Old Cane Mill; The Circus Comes to Town; And This on a Silver Platter; Acknowledgment.