PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF GENERAL NELSON A. MILES, EMBRACING A BRIEF VIEW OF THE CIVIL WAR: Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns With Comments on the Exploration, Development and Progress...
by Miles, Nelson A. [Appleton]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Chicago/New York: The Werner Company, 1896. 590 pp. Original brown decorative cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Binding rubbed w/ light fraying to corners and spine ends. Binding professionally restored w/ new endpapers added. Previous owner's name at top margin of title page. Stamped "Signal Intelligence Library" and "Withdrawn" on verso of title page; evidence of label neatly removed from spine. This is a First Edition, First State w/ "General" on frontispiece rather than "Major General." Illust. w/ b/w plates and numerous text illustrations. Text is clean, contents nice. Howes M-595.. First Edition, First State. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Frederic Remington; et al.. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Shoemaker Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M4179CW
- Title
- PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF GENERAL NELSON A. MILES, EMBRACING A BRIEF VIEW OF THE CIVIL WAR: Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns With Comments on the Exploration, Development and Progress...
- Author
- Miles, Nelson A. [Appleton]
- Illustrator
- Frederic Remington; et al.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition, First State
- Publisher
- The Werner Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago/New York
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- MILITARY HISTORY CIVIL WAR 1861 1865 BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY PERSONAL NARRATIVES MILES NELSON APPLETON 1839 1925 SOLDIERS U. S. ARMY SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR 1898 INDIAN WARS 1622 1898 NATIVE AMERICANS INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA WARS 1866 1895 INDIAN CAMPAIGNS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military - Spanish-American War; Autobiography; American Indian; Western;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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