THE CAPTURE, THE PRISON PEN, AND THE ESCAPE; giving a complete history of prison life in the south . .

by Captain Willard W. Glazier

A$250 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

describing the arrival of prisoners, plans of escape, with numerous and varied incidents and anecdotes of prison life. Embracing, also, the adventures of the author's escape from Columbia, South Carolina, his recapture, subsequent escape, recapture, trial as spy, and final escape from Sylvania, Georgia. Pp. 422, engraved frontispiece portrait, plus 12 plates, appendix; cr. 8vo; dark blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt & blind, the boards slightly scuffed, edges worn, the fore-corners

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