Chicago: (1868). Newspaper format, 2 8-page issues. 39 x 55 cm. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Horizontal crease on both issues where folded. Last leaf detached on Nov. 5 issue. Democrats nominated Horatio Seymour, a former Governor of New York while the Republicans nominated Ulysses Grant, the Northern military..... More
Philadelphia: King & Baird, Printers, 1864. 2nd ed. Paperback. 43p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Softcover. No separate wrapper present. The Free Military School enrolled a total of over 1000 applicants The school was established in December, 1863 and and gave brief training to many white civilians and soldiers..... More
Philadelphia: King & Baird, Printers, 1864. 2nd ed. Paperback. 43p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23 cm. Minor cover spotting. Upper right corner darkened on a few leaves, the darkest of which is also clipped at the tip. Moderate vertical crease. Pictorial image of the school on the front cover. The..... More
Springfield: Samuel Bowles & Co., (c. 1865) but probably about 1868. Paperback. 32p. Softcover in original green wrapper. 15 cm. A few minor creases. Light to moderate foxing throughout. Hager began producing this pro-Union musical entertainment in 1863 and continued presenting versions until 1885. This Springfield printing includes a heavy..... More
Rome, GA: Fletcher Smith, Printer, [1892]. Broadsheet. 21 x 20 cm. Printed on both sides on thin pink paper. Minor chipping and wear along page edges. One side is devoted to claims under the newly enacted Indian War Soldiers' Pension Bill under which qualified soldiers or their widows could receive..... More
Philadelphia: Merrihew & Thompson, 1863. Paperback. 24p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Vertical crease. Creasing, chipping and dog-earing on outer corners on back cover and most text leaves. Prooeedings of a meeting of the Pennsylvania Freedman's Relief Association. [Website Only]. More
Pasadena, Calif. Printed by House of Printing, (c. 1969). Presumed 1st ed. Paperback. photos, map, [8], 80, [1]p. Softcover in original gray wrapper. 25 cm. Modest cover fading. Internally sound and clean. Banks, a white Southerner, was born south of Hernando, Mississippi. Her father was a physician who also had..... More
New York: Board of Publication of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, (c. 1863). 1st ed. Hardcover. 2 plates (including frontis portrait of the deceased), 216p. Recent quarterbinding. 15cm. A father's loving memoir full of Christian sentiment for a son who sickened and died in Beaufort, South Carolina while serving as..... More
Providence: Snow & Farnham, 1898. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, ill, photos (all portraits), index, ix, 343p. Original red cloth. 23cm. Modest cover soil. Backstrip darkened. Minor fraying at ends of backstrip. Original floral endpapers still present. An uncommon Civil War Regimental. This regiment, consisted of three battalions. Its name was..... More
![Item #88757 Austin [no last name] to brother Benjamin [no last name]. Dated March 27, 1864 at...](https://mcblainbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/88757.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1677702844)
2 1/2 page Letter (on a single lightly-ruled 8 x 10 inch sheet folded to form four pages). Later folds, probably for mailing in a small envelope. Austin writes that he wants to attend the Free School for applicants seeking commands in colored troops. He asks Benjamin to send him..... More
Single Page document. Filled out in rather light ink. Later horizontal and vertical creases/folds. The 20th Regiment served in Louisiana, Texas and Florida before being mustered out in October, 1865. More
Single sheet folded to form four pages, 20 x 26 cm., as folded. Written in a neat hand although there were quite a few words that we failed to decipher. Corey devotes the first three pages of this letter to reporting on the unpleasant voyage to New Orleans which featured..... More
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1956. 1st ed. Hardcover. index, xii, 337p. Original black cloth. dj. 21 cm. Jacket lightly worn. More
New York: Random House, (1931). Limited Edition. Hardcover. illustrations, 142p. Original cloth backed boards. 33 cm. Modest foxing and wear on blank outer leaves. No jacket. Copy 934 of 980 numbered large paper copies printed in July, 1931 at the Grabhorn Press for Random House. An appealing edition. More
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
6 modest pages on a single 19 x 23 cm. sheet folded to make 4 pages with the final 2 pages on a added 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..... More
Philadelphia: 1900. Hardcover. a few photos and illustrations (including frontis), 334p. Original blue cloth with silver lettering. 20 cm. Minor cover spotting. No jacket. Sister Gonzaga and 24 other Sisters of Charity were requisitioned by Surgeon-General Hammond in 1862 to nurse sick and wounded soldiers at Satterlee Hospital in Philadelphia..... More
Philadelphia: T. Ellwood Chapman, 1862. Paperback. 12p. Later plain green wrapper. 19 cm. Minor foxing and wear. More
4 unnumbered pages on a now-folded single sheet of blue-toned paper. Dated April 5, 1863. 23 x 18 cm. Clear and readable. Return address at head of letter: Headquarters 176 Regt. PA MA, Beaufort, S.C. April 5, 1863. We don't know for certain whether Dreher was an officer in the..... More
Written on the first 2 1/2 pages of a lined personal-sized sheet that had been folded to form 4 pages. 28 cm. 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 Volunteers..... 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: Longmans, Green and Co., 1907. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, photos, erratum slip (between pages 249-249), index, 331p. Original blue cloth. 22cm. Ex lib. (BiIgelow Free Public Library). Among the library markings are a large bookplate inside front cover, a small label on backstrip with a call numer, a...... 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
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
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
