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1st book by Oliver Optic (W.T. Adams)

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Description

Title: Hatchie, The Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellebue. A Tale of the Mississippi and the South-west.
Author: Ashton, Warren T. [pseud. of William Taylor Adams, aka Oliver Optic]
Description: 313 pp. (12mo), original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.A scarce novel of the American South with an African-American hero. The first book by W.T. Adams, better know as "Oliver Optic".
Heading: Place Published: Boston
Publisher: B.B. Mussey; R.B. Fitts
Date Published: 1853

Condition

Binding well worn; foxing throughout, a few pages loose; good.

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1st book by Oliver Optic (W.T. Adams)

Name: 1st book by Oliver Optic (W.T. Adams)
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