A Fairfield Sketchbook by Julian Stevenson Bolick
Clinton, South Carolina: Jacobs Brothers, 1963. Limited First Edition No. 423 of 750 copies. Hardcover. 330 pages. Green cloth with black stamped titles to spine and front. With an introduction by Kathleen Lewis Sloan and Sectional Contributions by various authors. Illustrated with pen and ink drawings by Julian Stevenson Bolick. Signed by Bolick to the limitation page.
VG. Square and firm. Light spots to the cloth covers. Mild touch of foxing to fore page edge. Internal pages are clean and bright. Pen markings to the front dj flap and front free endpaper by the original owner, Henry Bacon McKoy of Greenville, SC. McKoy's handsome armorial bookplate is affixed to the front pastedown.
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About Henry Bacon McKoy
A native of Wilmington, NC, Henry Bacon McKoy was born on September 21, 1893. He attended George Washington University and then served with the U.S. Army 105th Engineers in France in WWI. McKoy began his career as an engineer and marble inspector on the construction of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. He was a partner in the Morris-McKoy Company that built Furman University's Sirrine Stadium in 1936. The Henry B. McKoy Construction Company and the McKoy-Helgerson Company constructed many buildings over the South. McKoy was interested in North and South Carolina history and wrote many books about local history and his family's genealogy. McKoy died in 1991.
