Lydia Bailey

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1947. First Edition. First printing Very good in decorated black cloth covered boards with bright gilt text stampings on the spine and front board with map end papers. The outer margins of many of the pages show a dampness stain that fortunately does not impact on the printing on the pages. In a good, price clipped, dust jacket with a long narrow chip from the spine area at the fold to the rear panel and with minor, shallow chipping from the ends of the spine area. An historical fiction novel which takes place in 1800 during America's Quasi-War with France and extends on to the slave rebellion in Haiti and then moves on to Tripoli to witness the U.S. war with the pirates from the Barbary States. (Inventory #: TB25491)