A BELLE OF THE FIFTIES : MEMOIRS OF MRS. CLAY, OF ALABAMA, COVERING SOCIAL AND POLITICAL LIFE IN WASHINGTON AND THE SOUTH, 1853 -- 66, PUT INTO NARRATIVE FORM BY ADA STERLING
de Sterling, Ada (Ed.)
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New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Top Edge Gilt. Front hinges starting, slightly shaken, but still solid. Light sunning to spine and extremities. A few wrinkles to spine with spine caps gently folded under. Corners lightly worn and nudged. Page edges soft and untrimmed. Gilt lettering debossed to spine, lovely cameo-type impression to front of dark green, grosgrain covered boards. Beautiful black and white portraits. Clean text. 386 pp with index. "The memoirs of "Mrs. Clay, of Alabama," by which title Mrs. Clement C. Clay, Jr, (now Mrs, Clay-Clopton), was known during the period comprised by 1850 --87, begin in the middle of the second decade of the nineteenth century, the scenes being laid among the affluent plantations of North Carolina and Alabama, and, continuing through two brilliant administrations at the national capital, close, as she emerges from the distresses which overtook her and her husband after the never-to-be-forgotten tragedy that plunged a nation into mourning -- the death of Mr. Lincoln," (preface).
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- A BELLE OF THE FIFTIES : MEMOIRS OF MRS. CLAY, OF ALABAMA, COVERING SOCIAL AND POLITICAL LIFE IN WASHINGTON AND THE SOUTH, 1853 -- 66, PUT INTO NARRATIVE FORM BY ADA STERLING
- Autor
- Sterling, Ada (Ed.)
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- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good Plus
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- Doubleday, Page & Company
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- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1905
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