New York: Ledyard Bill, 1868. Revised ed. Hardcover. Original green cloth. Covers bright but with significant spotting which is heaviest around the edges of both covers and at base of backstrip. Name penciled on first blank. Internally clean and tight. More
![Union Soldier's Letter to His Uncle and Others in Rushford, New York. Dated Jan. 30, [1862]. Sent...](/pictures/thumb/88852.JPG?v=1548676209)
6 modest pages on a single 19 x 23 cm. sheet folded to make 4 pages with the final 2 pages on a half sheet which is somewhat ragged along left side. Clear and readable. No punctuation. Two horizontal folds for mailing. Original envelope present -- standard 3 cent postage..... More
Buffalo: Peter Paul Book Co., 1898. Hardcover. 391p. Cloth-backed boards. 19cm. Edges rubbed. Minor cover soiling. A novel. More
Philadelphia: T. Ellwood Chapman, 1862. Paperback. 12p. Later plain green wrapper. 19cm. Minor foxing and wear. More
Written on the first 2 1/2 pages of a lined 8 x 10 inch sheet that had been folded to form 4 pages. Two later horizontal folds for mailing. Modest splitting at bottom of vertical fold. Soiling on blank final page. Dunnovan., a drummer in Company G, 21st Regiment Massachusetts..... More
Several folded leaves containing: (1) a 2 1/2 page holograph manuscript by Dyer probably written sometime in 1907 after receipt of the 4th item; (2) a thank you note in pencil dated May, 1865 from S. W. Harris (which is tipped along one side to a blank leaf); and (3..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1862. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, 359p. Original brown cloth. 20cm. Backstrip lightly faded. Short tear at head of backstrip. Edited by Charles Lanman. More
Boston: Boston Book Company, 1894. 2nd ed., revised and corrected, with appendix upon treatment of Colored prisoners of war. Hardcover. frontis, photos, maps (2 folding), index, xvi, 452, [1]p. Original dark blue cloth. 21cm. Cover scuffed and bumped and has wome fraying and other wear along extremities. Bookplate and former..... More
Evansville, IN: Herman Fluegel, (1864). Sheet_music. four-page piece of sheet music. Partial wrapper (pictorial front cover only). Moderate browning and edge-wear. "This Song and March is most respectfully dedicated to all True Union Patriots." Fluegel identified as serving in the U. S. A. Hospital Corps. More
New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert, (c. 1890). Hardcover. 2 vols. illustrations, 319p. [continuously paginated]. Original brown cloth. Folio (30 x 40cm.). Covers have a moderate-sized stain at top center of Vol. I and a few other minor stains. Extremities lightly rubbed (with fraying at corners). Front free endpapers creased..... More
Cambridge: [Printed for the Regimental Association by the] Press of John Wilson and Son, 1868. Hardcover. [4], 144p. Later utilitarian gray card binding. Most of front cover of original wrapper mounted front cover. 24cm. Title page somewhat browned and chipped at bottom edge. Age-toning. This scarce account of the 55th..... More
New York: John Bradburn, 1864. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. frontis, 309p. Original dark cloth. 19cm. Modest cover scuffing and wear. Former owner's name on endpaper. Scattered foxing and some age-toning. Fremantle, an English officer, came to the United States in 1863 to witness the Civil War. Initially, a more or..... More
New York: Winchell M. French, 1862. 1st ed. Hardcover. illustrations (in text), xii, [13]-312p. Original black cloth. 19cm. Backstrip worn and torn and now glued down. Significant foxing and some staining in text. A reasonably sound but far from handsome copy of a scarce book. Anti-slavery. More
Troy, N.Y. Young and Benson, 1865. 1st ed. Hardcover. xl, 342p. Original cloth. 25cm. Cover scuffed and rubbed. Ends of backstrip worn and there is splitting along the upper portion of the front joint. The contents have some age-toning and a bit of wear along fore-edge but are otherwise sound..... More
n.p. Tenth Vermont Regimental Association, 1870. 1st ed. Hardcover. index, viii, [1], [10]-249p. Original cloth. 22cm. Front free endpaper has a couple of short tears. Backstrip chipped at ends and quite faded. Haynes served as Chaplain. The Regiment appears to have spent the war in and around Washington, ZDC an..... More
![The Life and Travels of General Grant.... [Salesman's Sample]. J. T. Headley](/pictures/thumb/89639.JPG?v=1568756184)
Philadelphia: Hubbard Bros., [and many other places and publishers], 1879. Hardcover. Includes a selection of 100 or more pages with illustrations from the 600 or so pages that would appear in the published book. Original cloth. 22cm. Cover spotted and comewhat worn. Gift inscription from 1964. This salesman sample, consisting..... More
Boston: Walker, Wise, and Company, 1864. Hardcover. 298p. Original brown cloth with guilt decoration on front cover. 18cm. Backstrip slightly faded and has a few small spots. Modest chipping at ends of backstrip. Spine slightly sloped. Bookplate ("Frances Wason").. Hepworth, a chaplain, served for about three months with the 47th..... More
Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Co., 1870. 1st ed. Hardcover. index, iv, 296p. Later black buckram. 17cm. Ex lib. (Lebanon Valley College stamp embossed on title-leaf and stamped on page edges) Some age-toning. Colonel Higginson commanded the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first "slave" regiment mustered into the Union Army during..... More
Chicago: Curch & Goodman, 1865. Hardcover. frontis, maps, [4]i, 351p. Original blindstamped brown cloth. 22cm. Lacks free endpapers and 2 portraits. Backstrip and adjacent areas lacquered. Cover soiling. Edges worn. Title page and frontis heavily foxed.. Foxing and staining, mostly in margins, elsewhere in the book. Hinton a journalist with..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1877. 1st ed. Hardcover. 285p. Original green cloth. 19cm. Bookplate. INSCRIBED ("by the author" on May 22, 1877). The two wars are the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. More
1864. One Page. 21cm. Later folds, presumably for mailing. Doctor Horton writes to support the application for a Certificate of Leave for 20 days by Captain Charles N. Swift of the 30th Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops. Horton states that he has examined Swift and finds thAT sWIFT HAS BEEN SUFFERING..... More
1862. Interesting content in this Maine Infantry Civil War Letter of almost 4 full pages written in a clear hand from Beaufort, South Carolina and dated Aug. 22, 1862. Envelope not present. The writer, probably a Lieutenant, references colored (negro troops) from Connecticut and gives a long opinion on how..... More
![A Letter to a Friend in a Slave State. By a Citizen of Pennsylvania. [cover title]; Privted...](/pictures/thumb/89430.JPG?v=1562708754)
Philadelphia: 1862. Paperback. 60p. Softcover in original wrappers. 25cm. Backstrip heavily chipped; front and back covers edge-worn and detached. Dark brittle area on lower right edge of both cover and about two-thirds of the contents, edging into text on a few leaves. Printed statement on verso of front cover: These..... More
Washington, D.C. 1890. 2nd ed. Hardcover. Original cloth. Relatively minor chipping and fraying at ends of backstrip and cover corners. Cover soiling. Lacks front free endpaper. Name on first blank. Contents slightly browned but otherwise clean and tight. More
Washington, D.C. GPO, 1865. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Original green cloth. Backstrip partially detached and rather shabby. Small stain in margins in upper right corner; contents otherwise sound and clean. 38th Cong., 2d Sess. Senate. Rep. Com. No. 114. More
