William Walker Filibuster, Signed (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Presumed first edition/first printing. xi, 226 p. Endpaper maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Signed by author. Author's inscription. Signed gift card from author pasted to back of color frontis illustration. Bookplate. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. Price clipped. Some edge soiling. Frederic Rosengarten, Jr.; of Princeton, N.J., and Northeast Harbor, Maine, born in Philadelphia on October 4,1916 and died May 12, 1998. Received his A.B. degree from Princeton in 1938; wrote on a variety of subjects; The Book of Spices (1970); Freebooters Must Die! (1976); The Book of Edible Nuts was published in 1984; Wilson Popenoe (1991)). William Walker (May 8, 1824 - September 12, 1860) was an American physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary who organized several private military expeditions into Latin America, with the intention of establishing English-speaking colonies under his personal control, an enterprise then known as "filibustering". Walker usurped the presidency of the Republic of Nicaragua in 1856 and ruled until 1857, when he was defeated by a coalition of Central American armies. He was executed by the government of Honduras in 1860.