THE HUNTSMAN IN THE SOUTH. VOLUME ONE. VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA. By Alexander Hunter.

(1908) 2005 new MRP edition. 8vo (143 x 217mm). Pp318,iv. B/w photograph plates, engraved plates. Decorative stamped cloth, colour plate tipped to grey-paper covered slip-case. Edition limited to 1000 copies.

A fine facsimile reprint of this scarce early book on Southern hunting with a new introduction by James C. Kennedy. "Alexander Hunter was a Virginia aristocrat of the antebellum generation who writes of a rural and charmed life. Beginning with a riveting account of growing up on his plantation before the Civil War, Hunter weaves together colorful tales of decades pursuing quail, fox, and waterfowl in Virginia and North Carolina, and saltwater fish along the mid-Atlantic coast. All of this, of course, after duty to his beloved Confederacy. Such a life so intensely driven by sport and adventure is one that we can only dream about today. This is a captivating book. James C. Kennedy is Chairman and CEO of Cox Enterprises, Inc. of Atlanta, one of the largest media companies in the United States. James Cummins provides bibliographical and biographical notes on this elusive 1908 publication."