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LETTERS FROM THE COLONEL'S LADY: Correspondence of Mrs. (Col.) William Lamb, Written from Fort Fisher, N. C., C. S. A. to her Parents in Providence, R.I., U.S.A. December 1861 to January 1865 from the Lamb Collection of the Library of the College of William and Mary
by Lamb, Sarah Anne (Chaffee) | edited by Cornelius M. Dickinson Thomas
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ binding/near Very Good dust jacket
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Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Winnabow, NC: Charles Towne Preservation Trust, 1965. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/near Very Good dust jacket. 12mo. xxii, 99 pp., illus, facsims. First edition, thus. Signed by Thomas on the title page. As issued, in red cloth with dust jacket. A fresh copy with limited wear to the binding; contents are clean but for a contemporary owner inscription on the front pastedown; binding solid; dust jacket is a bit rubbed and slightly edgeworn, but generally presentable. "The highly unique letters of the wife of Confederate commander to her mother in the North; useful in a number of way" CWB II, 195.
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- Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7407
- Title
- LETTERS FROM THE COLONEL'S LADY: Correspondence of Mrs. (Col.) William Lamb, Written from Fort Fisher, N. C., C. S. A. to her Parents in Providence, R.I., U.S.A. December 1861 to January 1865 from the Lamb Collection of the Library of the College of William and Mary
- Author
- Lamb, Sarah Anne (Chaffee) | edited by Cornelius M. Dickinson Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ binding
- Jacket Condition
- near Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Towne Preservation Trust
- Place of Publication
- Winnabow, NC
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- Box X
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; History--U.S; Civil War & Military;
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Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
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About Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
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