Theatrical Management in the West and South for Thirty Years. Interspersed with Anecdotal Sketches.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868. Book. 8vo, original illustrated wrappers. Pp. vii, [9]-275, (1), illus.; port. plate. Printed in double columns. A fine copy. First edition, an important autobiographical account of a long career in acting and management in provincial 19th century America. Published a year before Smith's death, it combines elements of two earlier volumes of reminiscences with much new material. A fine copy in wrappers, with a family provenance, according to pencilled notes in the volume, having come from the author's daughter-in-law Mrs. Thaddeus S. Smith of St. Louis, whose collection of Smith papers and memorabilia is mentioned in the DAB. Howes S-672; Clark III, 415..