Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

Faber & Faber, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. author's note. Black coloured boards with pale yellow coloured titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper (wraparound), showing a montage of images from America's history, with white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Author photograph to the rear fold over panel. " Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All is the story of Lucy Marsden, the ninty-nine-year-old, half-blind wife of Captain Marsden, a Confederate veteran. Confined to an old people's home, but with all the memories intact, the boundless energy to tell her tale, Lucy Marsden unfolds the story of the American south from General Lee and Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King and the Challenger disaster." -- from the front fold over panel. Author's first work. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the backstrip and discolouration to the top and bottom book edges. Some rubbing of the book panels. Quite noticeable browning of the text block edges, commensurate with paper used in books' production, browning to the internal text as well. Minor rubbing and creasing to the top and bottom dustwrapper edges. This is the first UK edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Literature & Literary; Fiction -- Historical; United States; 19th century; ISBN: 057114201X. ISBN/EAN: 9780571142019. Inventory No: 0106467. . 9780571142019