Earnest Willie," or Echoes From a Recluse: Containing the Letters, Poems, Addresses and Sketches - Chiefly Moral and Religious - With Bits of Laughing Humor, Smiling Fancy and Tender Sentiment - Everywhere The Earnest Heart Throbs of William D. Upshaw, During his more than Ten Tears of Invalid Lif
by Upshaw, William D
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- Condition
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Atlanta: Franklin Printing and Publishing Company, 1893. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. [1], xxii, 694 pages. Frontispiece of photograph of author in his wheel chair. Illustrated. Green cloth hardcover with gilt lettered title on the front cover and spine.Light shelf and edge wear to the cloth binding. Walter McElreath, a former director of the Atlanta Histoirical Society, wrote the preface from his home in Powder Springs, Georgia. Previous owners name and address written on the right front flyleaf.
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- Bookseller
- Americana Books ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17560
- Title
- Earnest Willie," or Echoes From a Recluse
- Author
- Upshaw, William D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Franklin Printing and Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Atlanta
- Date Published
- 1893
- Keywords
- Atlanta, Georgia author
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