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[TEXANA]. [WRIGHT, Brigadier General Marcus J. (1831-1922),...

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[TEXANA]. [WRIGHT, Brigadier General Marcus J. (1831-1922), compiler]. [SIMPSON, Colonel Harold B. (1917-1989), editor]. Texas in the War 1861-1865. [Hillsboro, TX:] The Hill Junior College Press, [1965]. 8vo. Illustrated. 246 pp. Publisher's deluxe binding of full gray leather, front board and spine stamped in gilt, red watered silk endleaves, text-block spotted in red at edges as issued (light wear, bumping to spine headcap). Fine. FIRST DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, #40/50 COPIES SIGNED BY DR. DORMAN H. WINFREY, JAMES M. DAY, HOWARD P. WRIGHT, COL. HAROLD B. SIMPSON. A rare encyclopedia of Texas in the Confederacy, begun by Wright and later completed by Simpson. From the renowned personal collection of Dr. George D. Lacy. 

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