Three Centuries Passed : The Fitzhugh Family
by Fitzhugh, Marie
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Williamsville, New York, United States
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About This Item
San Antonio, TX: Naylor Company. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1975. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket is sunned on the spine with lettering still contrasting well, slightly sun-darkened fore and head edges, a tiny nick to the front and several to the head edge of the back.; Both a history and genealogy, this book starts with the 1670 emigration of William Fitzhugh, from England to Virginia. The various branches of the Fitzhugh family are followed through the next 3 centuries, recounting activities, migration in the Southern United States, births, deaths, and marriages, some connecting quite remotely to the families of Patrick Henry and Robert E. Lee. The account comes full-circle with Henry Fitzhugh emigrating from Texas to England. Signed and numbered on the title page, this is copy 127 of a "limited edition," with the limitation unstated. Additionally, the front endpaper is author signed and inscribed to her grandson. Four monochrome photographs. Bound in black cloth over boards, title in white on the spine, Fitzhugh coat of arms in white to the front. In a green, illustrated dust jacket. Includes ephemera: 1. A thank you note, from Henry and Hilary Fitzhugh to someone who made a donation upon the author's death. This note states the author's full name Marie Teresa Marguerite van Osenbruggen Halverson Fitzhugh. 2. A prospectus for the book Three Centuries Passed. 3. A prospectus for the book Irish Flats : A Ghost of San Antonio's Past, also by Marie Fitzhugh. In clean, sharp, Fine condition, in a conservatively Very Good dust jacket.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 55 pages; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- 20 Ants Fine Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1075
- Title
- Three Centuries Passed : The Fitzhugh Family
- Author
- Fitzhugh, Marie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- Limited/Numbered Signed Edition
- Publisher
- Naylor Company
- Place of Publication
- San Antonio, TX
- Date Published
- 1975
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Regional History, Historic Account
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