Five Years in the Alleghanies

Brown cloth with light blindstamping on front. Titles and decoration in gilt on spine. Edge and corner wear with boards showing at corners. Light damage at top and bottom of spine. Still square and securely bound. Tissue guard after frontispiece in tact. Interior toning though not affecting readability of text. ; B&W Drawing Frontispiece; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 206 pages; This copy does not list the author but he was Jonathan Cross, an evangelist who served the mountaineers of West Virginia before the Civil War. The book is heavy on religion but does give a picture of antebellum life in the mountains -- not Gone with the Wind.

Product Info

Publisher: American Tract Society

Year: 1863

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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