Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure.

Alexandria: Time-Life Books, 1982. Hardcover. 8vo. Black blind-embossed calf with gilt lettering. 288pp. All edges gilt. Frontispiece, decorative endpapers, sewn-in red silk page marker. Fine. Item #35956
ISBN: 0809442205

Handsome, tight facsimile reprint of the J.W. Daughaday (Philadelphia) 1863 first edition. Part of the "Collector's Library of the Civil War" series. James I. Robertson Jr. calls it "The starting point for any study of the 'Great Locomotive Chase,' though Pittenger's statements at times are suspect." NEVINS I, 146.

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