The History of the Tenth Cavalry, 1866-1921
by Glass, E. L. N. , editor
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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About This Item
1921 edition: Acme Printing Company. Very Good+. 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Original black leatherette book, gilt title and insignia of a buffalo imprinted on front along with an imprinted decorative border. First edition of a limited run, printed for family and friends in 1921. Boards and interior pages clean and bright, firm binding, illustrations vivid. The very tips boards are slightly bent. Color frontispiece of unit insignia, a buffalo, tipped in. Dedication to Col. Edwin B. Winans, who also gets a frontispiece photo, followed by a foreword by Gen. John J. Pershing, along with a full-page photo. A detailed history of the Tenth Cavalry Unit, one of two regiments "of colored men" formed by an act of Congress in 1866 in recognition of the role of "the colored soldier" in the Civil War. (The Ninth Cavalry was the other. ) "In the years that followed" its formation, the book says, the Tenth "created for itself a record which cedes primacy to none. " b&w photos and map illustrations throughout. An exemplary copy of this scarce item. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 145 pages .
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- Bookseller
- KULTURAs books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 77390
- Title
- The History of the Tenth Cavalry, 1866-1921
- Author
- Glass, E. L. N. , editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Acme Printing Company
- Place of Publication
- 1921 edition
- Date Published
- 1921
- Keywords
- Military History; U.S. Military; Buffalo Soldiers; Unit History, Colored soldiers US Civil War,
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