This is a luxury collector's edition of I'll Take My Stand, The South and the Agrarian Tradition by Twelve Southerners. This beautiful leather-bound printing of the original 1930 text was published by Southern Classics Library in 1983. The cover is genuine leather with 22-karat gold spine decoration, gilt lettering and decorative stamping, and raised bands on the spine. The book has textured satin interior end papers, an attached satin ribbon, and gilt page edging. It has 359 pages and a frontispiece of the author.
The book is in outstanding, like new condition. It has no previous owner's names, book plates, or marks. It is truly one of the most beautiful presentations of this writing.
First published in 1930, the essays in this manifesto constitutes one of the outstanding cultural documents in the history of the South. In it, twelve southerners-Donald Davidson, John Gould Fletcher, Henry Blue Kline, Lyle H. Lanier, Stark Young, Allen Tate, Andrew Nelson Lytle, Herman Clarence Nixon, Frank Lawrence Owsley, John Crowe Ransom, John Donald Wade, and Robert Penn Warren-defended individualism against the trend of baseless conformity in an increasingly mechanized and dehumanized society. In her new introduction, Susan V. Donaldson shows that the Southern Agrarians might have ultimately failed in their efforts to revive the South they saw as traditional, stable, and unified, but they nonetheless sparked debates and quarrels about history, literature, race, gender, and regional identity that are still being waged today over Confederate flags, monuments, slavery, and public memory.