NP: np, No date. Early 1900s? Original photograph, 19.5 x 15.5 cm. image, mounted on stiff card stock, 30 x 35 cm. A small white ink number appears in the lower left corner of the image. A female instructor points at a blackboard filled with chalk images of musical notation..... More
Original photograph, 15.5 x 21 cm., mounted on stiff card stock. Photo a bit faded but image distinct, mounting board with tears and some loss. Eight members of a team, all in uniform, all but one wearing a "Hercules" emblazoned shirt. The group has been photographed in a field, with..... More
NP: np, nd [ca. 1930, other editions were published in 1926-1932. 8vo. 38, (2) pp. Illustrated from photographs and an old painting. Cover title: Military Operations Fayette, West Virginia, 1861-1863. This issue not in Dornbusch. Not in Nevins or Broadfoot. OCLC locates five issues of this work, of 26, 31,or..... More
(Pryor, OK): General Stand Watie Monument Commission (printed Mayes County Republican, Pryor, Ok. c1915). First edition. 8vo. 58 pp. Illustrated from photographs, portrait plate of Watie. Southern historian Fletcher Green’s copy, with his ownership signature at the head of the title page. Original color decorated gray wrappers (some wear to..... More
Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, (c1975). First edition. 8vo. xxii, 319 pp. Illustrated from old wood engravings and photographs, plates, portraits. Gray cloth, gilt spine title. Very good in printed dust jacket (price-clipped). More
Richmond, VA: The camp, 1913. First edition. 8vo. 11 pp. Lists paintings (81 portraits), prints (16), and photographs (18) by medium and rank, and another 15 miscellaneous items; the library (approximately 250 titles) is listed by title. Original decorated glossy white wrappers, stapled. Very good. More
(Bath, NY: Courier Press, 1925). First edition. 8vo. 28 pp. Illustrated from photographs, portrait plates. Phillips describes his service in the 44th New York Infantry in the Virginia campaign surrounding Chancellorsville and his wounding at Gettysburg; following recovery, he was commissioned a lieutenant and commanded his brigade’s pioneers, building bridges..... More
(Richmond, VA): Richmond & Danville R.R. Co. “on the Requisition of the Quartermaster’s Department of the Confederate States”, nd [1861-1865]. Unused ticket for rail travel, 2 x 3 ½ inches, printed on mulberry card stock, with blanks for manuscript entries of place of origination and destination and number of seats..... More
Richmond, VA: November 21, 1863, Vol. XVII, No. 214. Double-folio. (2) pp. Prints notes with war news, including an article on the “situation at Chattanooga,” a long letter from Edwin De Leon in Paris to Secretary of State Judah Benjamin on diplomatic efforts in Europe, local news, a “good news”..... More
Richmond, (VA): Printed by James E. Goode, 1864. 16mo. 15 pp. Parrish & Willingham 8662. Original printed tan wrappers, stitched. Some interior browning, but a very good copy. (15643. More
Culpeper, VA: The compiler, 1900. First edition. 8vo. (4), 56 pp. Dornbusch II, 1220. Nevins II, p. 222: “With a keen memory and a flair for topographical description, Grimsley stresses the strategic importance of the county and recounted several actions in which he fought as a cavalry officer.” Original printed..... More
Athens, GA: U. of Georgia Press, (c1954). First edition. 258 pp. Portrait of C. C. Memminger, Confederate Secretary of the Treasury. Gray cloth, gilt spine title, illustrated dust jacket. Fine. More
(Livingston, Texas: Polk County Enterprise, Printers), nd [1911 or shortly after, two soldiers noted as having died in that year]. First edition. 8vo. 66 pp. Short biographies, with Confederate military experiences, of Polk County participants in the Civil War; includes rosters of companies that included the Polk County soldiers. Jenkins..... More
Galveston, TX: The Galveston News, 1870. Printed broadside, 13 ¼ x 9 ¾ inches [the ornamental rule enclosing the entire text has been trimmed away], employing several sizes and styles of type, including an elaborate display type for the general’s name in the head. Winkler & Friend 2552 (Texas-Austin, Rosenburg..... More
[Richmond, VA]: House of Representatives, May 4, 1864. First edition, House Doc. No. 30. 8vo. (1) pp. In part: “Whereas, the present war waged by the Government of the United States upon the Government, people, and property of the Confederate States, is without precedent in its atrocity and unchristian character..... More
New York: National War Committee of the Citizens of New-York, (1862). First edition, committee report no. 9. 8vo. 15 pp. The committee seeks an early military occupation of Texas “to relieve the Union men of that State.” OCLC locates five copies (American Antiquarian Society, New York Historical Society, Texas-Austin, Brigham..... More
New York: National War Committee of the Citizens of New-York, (1862). First edition, committee report no. 6. 8vo. 17 pp. Union men of West Texas request sending a military force into their territory. OCLC locates nine copies (Huntington, American Antiquarian Society, Library of Congress, New York Historical Society, U.S. Army..... More
8vo. Approximately 75 words, in part: “The Board has no place at present to deposit the money and I beg of you to retain it on deposit for the present.” RareBookHub records sales of several bonds and land grants signed by Murrah, but no letters. Old fold lines, but very..... More
(Austin, TX): Littlefield Fund for South History, U. of Texas, 1919. First edition. 4to. (8), 79 pp. Service in the 8th Texas Cavalry, formed by Col. Benjamin F. Terry who was killed early in the war; the unit fought in many battles in the western theater, including Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga..... More
(St. Paul, MN: The author, 1900). First edition. 8vo. 56 pp. Apparently not recorded in Dornbusch. Relatively uncommon, OCLC locates 11 copies. Original printed cream wrappers (darkened, a little soiling and wear at extremities). Very good. More
Champaign, IL: Gazette Steam Print, 1882. First edition. 8vo. 226 pp. Portrait of Col. J. W. Langley, one of the regimental commanders as frontispiece. After initial mustering in 1862, the regiment participated in battles in Kentucky, then Tennessee, at Stone River, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga, the Atlanta campaign, and finally..... More
NP: (The compiler, 1962). First edition. 8vo. 194 pp. Portrait from a photograph, maps, facsimile. Cort enlisted in the 192nd Illinois Volunteers and fought with the unit through the western campaign from the Tennessee battles to the Atlanta campaign, then on to the march to the sea and through the..... More
New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1899. First published edition of this dissertation. 8vo. 80 pp. Nevins II, p. 232: “Only 30 pages if this early doctoral dissertation treat of the war period; Neal argued that most Tennesseans favored secession.” Original printed green wrappers (soiled, some wear at the extremities). Very good..... More
The receipt is illustrated with a small printed covered wagon pulled by two horses and printed: “Received in my Wagon, in good order and condition from Agent, the following packages, viz: … which I promise to deliver in like good order and condition to “Columbus Whitby” (Condition of Contents unknown).”..... More
Charleston, (SC): Steam-Power Presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1861. 8vo. 11 pp. Parris & Willingham 7783 (South Carolina, Boston Athenaeum). OCLC locates two copies (South Carolina, Boston Athenaeum). Disbound pamphlet. Very good. More
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