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Reid, Captain Mayne. The Quadroon; or, A Lover’s Adventures in Louisiana. New York: Robert M. Dewitt, (1856). First American edition. Publisher’s blindstamped cloth, gilt spine vignette. Engraved frontispiece and plates behind tissue. 8vo. xii, 384pp. Slightly canted, some foxing to plates; a bit rubbed, but sturdy and clean overall. Includes tales of riverboat gambling, the slave trade, and the mythologized milieu unique to New Orleans in the mid-nineteenth century that included a broad range of vices and sins.