Absalom Grimes: Confederate Mail Runner
by Absolom Grimes; M.M. Quaife (Editor)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Creston, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Yale University Press - 1926. First edition. Edited from Captain Grimes' Own Story by M.M. Quaife, or The Burton Historical Collection. Frontispiece of Absalom Carlisle Grimes. Illustrations. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. There is a moderate mottled area at the lower rear spine, the edges are tanned and there is a nice non-author 1926 gift inscription on the front-free end-paper, else, this hardcover is clean, unmarked (except as noted), and tightly bound, and thus in Good condition. "The volume which these lines are designed to introduce to the reader is chiefly devoted to narrating the remarkable Civil War career of Captain Absalom C. Grimes of Missouri." --- Historical Introduction. Grimes was a native of Missouri who fought on the side of the Confederates during the Civil War, carrying the mail between Missouri's Confederate battalions and their relatives at home.
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- Bookseller
- Charlie's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8803
- Title
- Absalom Grimes: Confederate Mail Runner
- Author
- Absolom Grimes; M.M. Quaife (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Date Published
- 1926
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Civil War
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil War;
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