Bride of Fortune
Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1948. Book Club Edition. hardcover. 8vo 301pp. from front flap: "No woman in America ever lived a life like that of vivid Varina Howell Davis, the First Lady of the Confederacy, "Queen of the Lost Cause." Born an aristocrat in cotton-rich Natchez on the Mississippi, she left her home at eighteen to face an uncertain future as the wife of an enigmatic country man, Jefferson Davis--and to embark on a swift, kaleidoscopic career such as she had never dreamed of." Book VG: toning/offset to endpapers, mild shelf wear, text clean, binding tight. / DJ G: age toning, corner and edge wear, closed tear along edge of rear flap, not clipped. Item #2070
#02132.
Price: $9.00