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Elizabeth Coker: The Grasshopper King, 1981 - Signed

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Elizabeth Coker: The Grasshopper King, 1981 - Signed

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Book Title: The Grasshopper King - A Story of Two Confederate Exiles in Mexico During the Reign of Maximilian and Carlota

Author: Elizabeth Boatwright Coker

Publisher: E. P. Dutton, New York

Date: 1981

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Markings: Signed by author

Size: 8vo - over 7.75-9.75 inches tall, 278 pages

Light tan and white HB with gold; pictorial light tan DJ with white, black, grey, etc. Author's inscription

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