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Alabama Empire by Welbourn Kelley 1957 Hardback

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Alabama Empire by Welbourn Kelley 1957 Hardback

SYNOPSIS:  503 pages.

"The time is 1789, and the central character young Dr. John Adam Fyfe of Edinburgh, recently arrived to settle in New York City. Hounded by a series of misfortunes (including a stretch in the notorious debtors' prison, Bridewell), he is unexpectedly rescued by a former patient, General-now-President Washington, who sends him to the wild Alabama River Country as physician/ambassador to the disease-ridden Alexander McGilivray, the fabulous but little-known emperor of the fierce Creeks. Plots and counterplots, involving Spain, England, the Creeks and assorted adventurers (including one of the gaudiest of America's authentic villains, William Augustus Bowles), have long kept the area in turmoil. When bloody violence seems inevitable, Fyfe and his seductive half-breed companion, Annalie, flee to Philadelphia and unwittingly to a gruesome climax played against the background of terror and death that was the yellow-fever scourge of 1793."

Publisher: Rinehart & Company,Inc., New York and Toronto. Only date given is 1957 copyright.

Format: Hardback with blue gilt upper page edges. No dust jacket.

Condition: Very good condition. Signs of wear include the following:Blue cloth boards soiled and split at upper front spine. Inner pages slightly age yellowed. Owner's name in large scrawled (eraseable) pencil on inside front board. Photos illustrate condition.

See Grading Scale page for explanation of grades. Photos of any obvious condition issues will be provided.

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