Ambler, I. W.

'Truth is Stranger Than Fiction.' The Life of Sergeant I. W. Ambler

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1883. First printing. Hardcover. 1883 edition, 8vo, red cloth gilt, 311, 55 pp, illustrated, including photographic frontispiece (light wear to outer edge), other woodcut plates. Very good, light wear to covers, small old sticker to spine (private library?), 1883 inscription to flyleaf. The author spent his childhood in the coal mines of England, escaped to America, became a temperance advocate and did missionary work in Biddeford, Maine, fought in the Civil War, tussled with Indians, etc. Very Good. Item #H1635

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