Virginia Iron Manufacture In The Slave Era (First Edition, First Printing) Bruce, Kathleen

Uncommon First Edition, First Printing of this detailed history of the iron industry in Antebullum Virginia. Labor performed by enslaved people was an integral component of the industry, a major instance of the relatively uncommon assignment of slaves to industrial settings. Cloth, 482 pages. Has a bit of rubbing a the edges of the spine. There's a 3-1-2" by 3" sticker that's a request for a book review from the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences on the front endpaper. The sticker contains a date stamp of June 15, 1931. On the copyright page, the publisher has stamped 1931 as the copyright date to replace the origianlly typeset 1930.