8vo. xix, [1], 375pp, [1]. With half-title, a monochrome photographic frontispiece, 15 monochrome photographic plates, five illustrations in the text, and a folding map bound to rear. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed and bumped. Extensive ink annotations throughout. A very good copy. From the library, though not identified as such, of British barrister Patrick Neill, Baron Neill of Bladen (1926-2016).

The first edition of a monograph on the social and economic history of the antebellum American South by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1877-1934). The work places particular emphasis on the role of slavery and plantations in the formation of Southern society.