[CIVIL WAR]. A large group of Civil War related books incl. Grant's Personal Memoirs.
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[CIVIL WAR]. A large group of Civil War related books incl. Grant's Personal Memoirs.
GRANT, Ulysses S. (1822-1885). Personal Memoirs. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885-1886. 8vo, 2 volumes. Frontispiece, folding facsimile, maps and plates. (Occasional spotting.) Original dark green illustrated cloth gilt (recased, original cloth laid down). FIRST TRADE EDITION.
[With:] SHERIDAN, Philip H. (1831-1888). Personal Memoirs. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888. 8vo, 2 volumes. Frontispieces. Modern half red morocco with spine in 5 compartment and 4 raised bands, gilt lettering in 3, original illustrated gilt brown cloth laid down. FIRST EDITION. -- SUMNER, Charles. Recent Speeches and Addresses. Boston: Higgins, Bradley and Dayton, 1857. Original brown cloth (recased, original cloth laid down, spotting, spine sunned). Later edition. Sabin 93670. -- HOWLAND, Edward. Grant as a Soldier and Statesman. Hartford: J.B. Burr & Company, 1868. Sabin 33381. Sabin calls for 631 pages, this copy has 639. -- 3 works in 4 volumes, 8vo and 12mo, condition generally very good.
[With:] SABRE, G.E. Nineteen Months A Prisoner of War. Narrative of Lieutenant G.E. Sabre, Second Rhode Island Cavalry. New York: The American New Company, 1865. 12mo. 3 plates. (Occasional spotting.) Original brown cloth (recased, original cloth laid down, some sunning). Sabin 74743. -- BROWNE, Junius Henri. Four Years in Secessia: Adventures Within and Beyond the Union Lines. Hartford, Chicago, and London: O.D. Case and Company, Geo. & C.W. Sherwood, and Stevens Brothers, 1865. (Spotting.) Original brown cloth (recased original cloth laid down, spine sun faded). -- KELLOGG, Robert H. Life and Death in Rebel Prisons. Hartford: L. Stebbins, 1865. 12mo. Original brown cloth gilt. Sabin 37300. -- MOORE, Frank. Women of the War. Hartford, CT: S.S. Scranton & Co., 1867. Second edition. Sabin 50371. -- PINKERTON, Allan. The Spy of the Rebellion. Wilmington, DE: Baird & Mitchell, 1884. Original brick red cloth gilt (recased, original cloth laid down, scuffing). Early edition. -- GREENE, Charles S. Sparks from the Camp Fire. New York: W.A. Houghton, 1889. Provenance: F.B. Tyler (ownership stamp). Original illustrated cloth. -- [COFFIN, Charles Carleton]. Following the Flag. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. 16mo. Original brown cloth (recased, original cloth laid down). Sabin 14165. -- 7 works in 7 volumes, all FIRST EDITIONS except where noted, 8vo, 12mo and 16mo, condition generally very good except where noted.
[With:] MOORE, Frank. The Civil War in Song and Story. New York: Peter Fenelon Collier, [1882?]. -- MOORE, Frank. The Civil War in Song and Story. [New York]: P. F. Collier, 1889. -- Together, 2 copies of Moore's collection of anecdotes, poetry, and incidents from the War, original illustrated cloth, large 8vo, later edition greatly expanded, both in very good condition.
[With:] DIXON, Thomas. The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1913. -- GLASGOW, Ellen. The Deliverance. New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1904. -- 2 works of post-war Southern literature, both FIRST EDITIONS, 8vo, original publisher's cloth, both in fine condition.
[Also with:] BONI, Margaret Bradford, editor. The Fireseide Book of Favorite American Songs. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1914. 4to. Illustrated. Original cloth.
Together, 15 works.
Together, 15 works.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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