Author: MITCHELL, MARY H
Title: Hollywood Cemetery the History of a Southern Shrine
Description: Richmond, VA: Virginia State Library, 1985. Reprint. Hardcover. ISBN: 0884901092. B&W & color illustrations; 7 1/4 x 10 1/4; xiv, 194 pages; 1985 first edition. Hard cover is green cloth, gold lettering on spine. Green end papers. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if never used. DJ has light shelf wear, rubbing, bumping; in a mylar cover. Ilustrated with 6 full color plates and 66 b/w pictures, including 5 maps/plats. "Inspired by the international rural-cemetery movement, created amid controversy in the 1840s and 1850s, and challenged by the toll of the Civil War, Hollywood Cemetery is a Southern landmark. Here lie James Monroe, John Tyler, Jefferson Davis, 6 Virginia governors, and countless Confederate officers and soldiers....." 2 appendices; notes; bibliography; index.. Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

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