Lone Star Preacher. Being a Chronicle of the Acts of Praxiteles Swan, M. E. Church South sometime Captain, 5th Texas Regiment, Confederate States Provisional Army. Illustrated by the Author.
first edition
1941 · New York
by Thomason, John W., Jr.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1941. First Edition. Blue cloth, garnet letters & decoaration, uncut, 296 pp. `No man knows the character of the people of the army of Northern Virginia as does John Thomason; no one can write more excitingly of the War Between the States, or communicate so fully the humor and curious individualism of the Southern soldier. Herein the Confederacy lives again. And Praxiteles Swan, the Texan who enforces reverence with his fists, is destined to take his stand among the immortal characters of American fiction...’ (Inventory #: 4298s)