The Life of Gen. Francis Marion, a Celebrated Partisan Officer in the Revolutionary War, Against the British and Tories in South Carolina and Georgia
Philadelphia: Joseph Allen, sold by Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1855. Very Good. Item #25408
Philadelphia: Joseph Allen, sold by Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1855. Later edition. Octavo. 252 pp. Six black and white plates. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth with gilt decoration to spine.
Boards rather worn at extremities with exposure and minor fraying, spine rubbed. Moderate lean to boards but binding holding soundly. Pages foxed. Contemporary scribblings to rear endpapers with what appears to be a couple drafts of a poem to a "Miss Sallie" from "Charlie" dated May 17, 1865.
A well-used but sound copy of this biography of the Swamp Fox, known for his guerrilla warfare tactics in the Revolutionary War.
Price: $75.00