Virginia Illustrated: Containing a Visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the Adventures of Porte Crayon and His Cousins

by Virginia, Porte Crayon , pseud David Hunter Strother

$750 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1857. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 25cm . Publisher's red blind-stamped cloth, decoratively titled in gilt on spine; xii, 13 -309pp; 4pp publisher's ads; illus. A brilliant copy, unfaded and practically free of wear save a bit of rubbing at crown of spine. Pale yellow coated endpapers darkened from binder's adhesive, else equally fine internally, with just

• Printing: first

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