A Confederate Girl's Diary
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Item #10730
12mo. xvii, [2], 399, [3] pp., frontis, plates. First edition, first printing. In publisher's decorative cloth, lacking the rare dust jacket; all plates present as called for. Minor soiling to the front cover; very little shelfwear; previous owner name on the front free endpaper; some toning the leaves opposite the plates (as usual), otherwise clean throughout; a tight, presentable copy.
Harwell describes this as "A splendid diary from a well born Louisiana girl, part written in Confederate Baton Rouge and part written in Federal occupied New Orleans" In Tall Cotton 38. And Coulter writes: "This diary is written with keen intelligence, and is well-balanced in its statements. Naturally most of it is concerned with family associations and social activities, but there is also much that related to both the spirit of the time and its author's reactions. This is one of the best war diaries relating to the Confederacy" Coulter 118. Howes D-160.
Price: $150.00