Confederate First Reader Containing Selections (1 results)

[SMITH, Richard McAllister]. The Confederate First Reader: Containing Selections in Prose and Poetry, as Reading Exercises for the Younger Children in the Schools and Families of the Confederate States. Richmond: G.L. Bidgood, 1864. 120pp. Orig. cloth-backed printed flexible boards. Small waterstain on front board, scattered foxing and toning, bookseller's shipping label affixed to front pastedown, else very good P&W 7873. Rare in the trade. A selection of Bible stories and retellings of Aesop's Fables, in prose and verse, alongside a number of brief moral tales, for children growing up in the Confederacy.…