DRAKE, James Madison. Fast and Loose in Dixie.

An Unprejudiced Narrative of Personal Experience as a Prisoner of War at Libby, Macon, Savannah, and Charleston, with an Account of a Desperate Leap from a Moving Train of Cars, a Weary Tramp of Forty-Five Days through Swamps and Mountains, Places and People Visited, etc., etc. 

New York: The Author’s Publishing Company, 1880.

Small 8vo.; red decorative cloth stamped in gilt and black.

First edition, with frontispiece portrait. A presentation copy, inscribed “To General U.S. Grant, with the compliments of the author. Elizabeth, N.J. Christmas, 1880,” on the front free endpaper; endorsement stamped on front cover: “Thrilling Account, Genl. U.S. Grant.”