William H. Thomas, Running the Blockade or Secret Service Adventures

Description

William Henry Thomas’ Running the Blockade or U.S. Secret Service Adventures is a fictional account that had strong sales in the marketplace.

Thomas, who also wrote on his life as a gold prospector in Australia, includes a nighttime fictional encounter with President Lincoln “whose clothes were none too neat, apparently made without regard to symmetry or shape” he goes on to call Lincoln an “uncouth looking person”

Lt. rub; darkening at spine foot; bump.

Thomas, William Henry. RUNNING THE BLOCKADE OR U.S. SECRET SERVICE ADVENTURES. Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1891. 414p.; 1/2 ““ leather with marbled boards and leather spine labels.