Feb 02, 2006 - Sale 2065

Sale 2065 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 316
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE IMPRINT.) Chaudron's Spelling Book, Carefully prepared for Family and School Use. Woodcut illustrations. 12mo, later cloth-backed boards, chipped and worn; minor foxing. Mobile: S. H. Goetzel, 1865

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The publisher's preface, dated 1 December 1863, seems to make light of the war, writing "In former times the country was overrun with an endless number of competition School Books in every line of instruction. The present condition of the country has delivered us from this evil." P&W 7685; Crandall 4039.