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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
LEE'S MISERABLES HUGO, VICTOR. Les Miserables. Parts II-V only (of 5). 8vo, printed wrappers, scattered dampstaining, creasing, chips and browning to covers and contents, spines lacking, but Part V with early attempt at restoration. sold as is. Richmond: West and Johnson, 1863-64
Cosette Marius St. Denis Jean Valjean. Each part was a complete novel and published separately because of the paper shortage. The first four were published in 1863, the last in 1864. Les Miserables was so popular in the Confederacy that Southern soldiers called themselves "Lee's Miserables." Hugo's anti-slavery passages were conveniently excised. Harwell. Cornerstone of Confederate Collecting, 13; Crandall 3096.
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