Captain Grant
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1946. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 606 pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Bookplate inside front cover. Shirley Seifert was born in St. Peters, Missouri, just west of St. Louis, and has lived all her life in that vicinity. While taking graduate work in journalism at the University of Wisconsin, she was urged to try fiction, and soon after that she sold her first short stories to the American Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post. After 1935, she devoted herself to the historical novel and completed several which were acclaimed. More