1905 The Clansman Thomas Dixon Jr First Edition Doubleday Keller Illustrated For Sale

ConditionFair antique condition. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards show age-related rubbing, fading, surface marks, edge wear, and softened/frayed corners. A faded rectangular area on the front board appears consistent with a removed sticker or label. Spine lettering is faded, with wear at the head and tail.The binding shows weakness and opening along the inner spine/hinge areas. Pages 145–146 are detached from the binding but are present. Interior pages show general age toning, occasional dust/handling marks, and some staining to the endpapers. Several areas of the text block and inner binding show fragile age-related wear. Illustrated front matter is present; completeness of every original plate has not been independently verified.This is a collectible reading/reference copy rather than a fine-condition example. Please review all photographs carefully for the exact condition.Item DescriptionOriginal 1905 hardcover edition of The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan by Thomas Dixon, Jr., illustrated by Arthur I. Keller and published in New York by Doubleday, Page & Company.The book is an historically significant but explicitly racist pro-Klan novel set during Reconstruction. It later became one of the source works for D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation. Modern library cataloging places it within historical and political fiction dealing with Reconstruction, racism, and the Ku Klux Klan. The original 1905 edition was issued with illustrations by Keller and is bibliographically recorded at approximately 374 pages with multiple plates.