#246 • KKK Sketches by James Melville Beard, 1877

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K.K.K. Sketches by James Melville Beard, 1877. Humorous and didactic sketches treating the events of the Ku Klux Klan movement in the South during Reconstruction, with a discussion of the causes that gave rise to it and the social and political issues that followed. Black pebbled leather binding with a blind stamped border and gilt monogram on the front cover, gilt lettering on the spine.