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Auction: 317 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 534

Civil War. Davis, Varina Howell (widow of Jefferson Davis): Jefferson Davis. Ex-President of the Confederate States of America. New York, Belford Co., 1890. 2 volumes. 8vo, illustrated. Varina completed and published Davis' autobiography a short time after his death. She went on to pursue a literary career in New York (invited by the Pulitzers) as a columnist, while her daughter, Winnie published several novels. Volume II cover splitting from spine and light foxing and pencil notation, otherwise About Very Good [2]