Muddy Banks
by Tolliver, Ruby C
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0875650627
- ISBN 13
- 9780875650623
- Seller
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Taylor, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Texas Christian University Press,U.S.. Near Fine in Very Good+ Dust Jacket. 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0875650627 . A twelve-year-old runaway slave is torn between desire for freedom and affection for the woman who has protected him, as the impending Battle of Sabine Pass threatens to engulf their part of Texas. This absorbing novel highlights an amazing but often overlooked battle in Texas history when a company of forty-one Irishmen, one cavalry surgeon, and one young engineer captured six hundred prisoners and two gunboats and sent an armada of twenty-seven Union ships fleeing. Inscribed to "three terrific girls", one of which owned this book and wrote her name on the front pastedown..DJ lightly edgeworn. ; A Chaparral book Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 151 pages; 30550; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- The Novel Shoppe (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30550
- Title
- Muddy Banks
- Author
- Tolliver, Ruby C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ Dust Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0875650627
- ISBN 13
- 9780875650623
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press,U.S.
- Place of Publication
- Forth Worth, Texas
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- 0875650627, TEXAS, Coast, Slavery, HISTORICAL, Sabine Pass, Confederacy, Union Ships
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