Hardcover, no dustcover, vintage 1945 printing. Book is in very good condition. CHARLESTON, 1910. Imposing mansions, Victorian gingerbread houses, Negro shacks. Crape-myrtle, azaleas, geraniums in rusty tin cans. Turbaned maumas on the Battery. The "raw swimp" man bawling his wares in rich Gullah. And the Gerard sisters patching up their latest quarrel, over a family daguerreotype bequeathed to Miss Julie and claimed by Miss Tessie. What Miss Julie did about "the mess she had got herself into," what Miss Tessie did when Miss Julie walked out on her, and what Henry O'Donnell did to save the family pride when Miss Tessie began taking magazine subscriptions, make this a unique and appealing book. What Miss Tessie did after that makes it extremely funny, and yet very touching. Charleston, family life, and the oddities of the old are all amusingly satirized.