A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, Covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853-1866.; Put into narrative form by Ada Sterling. Illustrated from contemporary portraits.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1904. First edition. 8vo. xxii, 386 pp. 24 portrait plates. Nevins II, p. 185: "Descriptive largely of wartime life in Richmond and Macon, with good accounts of shortages and substitutes." Not in Nicholson. Inscription on front endpaper, else very good. Original silver and gilt-stamped decorated green cloth (rubbed), top edge gilt. (10053). Item #63621
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