Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 64

Price Realized: $ 300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(CALIFORNIA.) Billings, Eliza A. Truth Stranger than Fiction. The Female Volunteer; or the Life, Wonderful Adventures and Miraculous Escapes of Miss Eliza Allen, a Young Lady of Eastport, Maine. 3 plates. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, worn with slight loss of text, crudely rebacked using rear wrapper; some pages worn with marginal loss, minor dampstaining. Np, [1851]
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"Miss Allen followed her lover, W. Billings, in the Mexican war and to California, in disguise. The autobiography ends with her marriage"--Sabin 5411. The details of this story may be even stranger than the truth.