First Edition 1865 "The Secret Service: The Field, The Dungeon, and the Escape" by Albert D.Richardson

Item Details

A first edition 1865 The Secret Service: The Field, The Dungeon, and the Escape by Albert D. Richardson. Published in 1865 in Hartford, Connecticut by the American Publishing Company, this book features a frontispiece of the author, full leather binding with a black leather gilt spin label title. The author was a reporter who was captured by the Confederacy during the Civil War and served 18 months in a Confederate prison. This book is his memoir of the Civil War, his imprisonment, and the brutality of slavery.

Condition

fair, yellowed pages and spots, spine is intact, no torn pages,

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Item #

17DAL056-001