Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama
Item #70087
CLAY, [Virginia] Mrs. A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, Covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853-66. Gathered and Edited by Ada Sterling. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904. 1st ed. xxii,386pp.Portrait frontis., portraits. Orig. gilt-pictorial cloth, T.e.g. Cloth lightly rubbed, some edgewear, else very good. "Descriptive largely of wartime life in Richmond and Macon, with good accounts of shortages and substitutes" Nevins I, p.185.
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