1877: year of violence

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1959. Hardcover. 384p., hardbound first edition in pale-apricot boards titled red, in dust jacket. A nice copy, no ownership or other marks; unclipped dj is bright but has a small adhesion scar to front panel affecting author's name, and back panel has a light dampstain with offset color. A presentably good copy. "Such blotches on a nation as race riots, lynchings, government corruption and graft, scandal in high places and the shocking growth of teen-age gangs provided the ingredients of certain explosion," (dustjacket). (Inventory #: 99444)