Greene lieutenant colonel (2 Ergebnisse)
Verlag: Praeger, New York NY, [1962] 1962
- Hardcover
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, Vereinigtes KönigreichIsland Books
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In den Warenkorb8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and maps in the text; green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at head and tail of backstrip. With personal name stamp embossed in blind on front free endpaper. VERY SCARCE.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Pennsylvania Publishing Co, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, USA 1890
- Hardcover
Anbieter: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Vereinigtes KönigreichOrlando Booksellers
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. A new and enlarged edition. No date but the preface is dated May 1890. ***Very good in black cloth-covered boards with blind embossed titles and camp-fire and sparks and border decoration to spine and front board. Green floral illustrated front and rear free endpape…rs and pastedowns. Illustrated with tissue-guarded colour plates. Profusely illustrated with black and white plates throughout, including steel engraved frontispiece showing: General Ulysses Simpson Grant Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the United States (from a photograph by Gutekunst). Contemporaneous gift inscription in black fountain pen ink: ' From Cousin John William to Ernest Wigfall' to second front free endpaper. With a detailed index at the front, but no title-page. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Corners of boards rubbed and bumped. Head and tail of spine rubbed, creased and slightly bumped. Head and tail of spine rubbed. Light offsetting to front and rear free endpapers. A very few light spots of foxing to prelims. Interior pages clean. No dustwrapper. ***478 pages including contents. 244mm x 174 mm. Contents include the following: The Battle of Gettysburg: Scene of the Battle; First Day: Opening of the Battle; Driven Back through Gettysburg; Second Day: Position of the Armies; Assault on the Third Corps; Defence of Little Round Top; In Front of the Second Corps; Ewell's Attack on the left; Third Day: The Defence of Culp's Hill; Lee's Supreme Effort; The Artillery duel; Pickett's Rash Charge; At "The Bloody Angle"; Captured by a Louisiana Tiger: In the Tiger's Claws; Choosing Between Life and Death; Gen. Thomas W. Sweeney at Shiloh; Two Marvellous stories; Thrilling Adventure of a Spy; How Jim Lost his Sweetheart; A Prophetic Presentiment; Naval Battle of Memphis; Zagonyi's Famous Calvary Charge; Review of the Armies, May 23-24, 1865; Prison Pens of Dixie: Treatment of Rebel Prisoners in Federal Prisons; A Thrilling Railroad Adventure in West Virginia; Sheridan's First Battle; Cleaning out the Alabama Guerillas; The Battle of Antietam; The Battle of Chickamauga; The Battle of Five Forks; The Battle of Roanoke Island; The Battle of Fredericksburg; Escape from Libbt Prison: Tunneling Under Difficulties; The Battle of Malvern Hill; Morgan's Raid through Ohio; In the Chattanooga Valley; Post-room Recitations. ***1890 enlarged edition of Sparks From the Camp-fire, which was originaly published shortly after the end of the American Civil War. An antiquarian title which is extremely hard to find in the UK. ***Of interest to collectors of antiquarian books on the American Civil War. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
