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DIXON, THOMAS, JR. The Clansman. An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan. Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905. 1st ed. 8vo. 374 pp. Orig. cloth, white letters on spine faded. Very good. $1,250.00

 

A fine and early presentation copy inscribed in ink on the free front endpaper: "To/ A Little Southern/ Miss Myrtle McGrain/ With best wishes/ Sincerely/ Thomas Dixon jr/ N.Y. July 19, 1905."

Blockson, A Commented Bibliography of One Hundred and One Influential Books By and About People of African Descent, 53: "No American author of his time was more deeply devoted to the cause of white supremacy than Thomas Dixon, Jr....The Clansman, which is not un-readable, eventually became D.W. Griffith's most profitable and controversial film, The Birth of a Nation, in 1914."