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Lot # 161
Estimate 200.00 - 300.00 USD
Group - Category Antiques & Collectibles - Collectibles - Signed By Author Books
Lead 3 vols. Union Soldier Narratives.
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3 volumes of Union Soldier narratives. Conditions vary. Vail, Enos B. Reminiscences of a Boy in the Civil War. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Published by author, 1915. 8vo; blue cloth. Signed by author on ffep, dated 1915. frontis. loose but present. Kieffer, Harry M. The Recollections of a Drummer-Boy. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., [1911]. Revised Edition. Pictorial green cloth stamped in black. Ex-library. +++ Matthews, William H. Harry: being the Recollections of an English Boy, who Served Four Years in the Union Army during the Civil War. Iowa City, IA: Iowa Printing Company, [1927]. 8vo, 358pp; burgundy cloth with gilt titling to front cover and spine; hinges good, title page partially separated from binding but holding, but contents are otherwise sound and strong. Personal Narrative of an English-born Congressional Medal of Honor winner; while spending 4 years in the Union Army in 2nd Md. Reg. Co. E. Also covers his life after the war, and mentions rooming for a while with the man who killed John Wilkes Booth. An interesting, fairly scarce title.
Name Civil War Book Catalog Auction 11/14/2024
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Type Internet Absentee Bidding
Date(s) 10/29/2024 - 11/14/2024
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Quinn’s Auction Galleries is proud to present our American Civil War Book Auction featuring a single owner collection of books and printed material pertaining to the Civil War, handpicked over a lifetime and containing many first editions and titles long out of print, contemporaneous and modern, including regimental histories from most states in the Union, hundreds of personal reminiscences, military histories, official reports, and battle accounts; seminal biographies of figures such as Jeb Stuart, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson; bound volumes of New York Tribune and Harper’s Weekly; early printing of Uncle Tom’s Cabins; some signed works; poetry, genre fiction, juvenile books. Choice offerings from the catalogs of specialty publishers Neale and Morningside Bookshop. Rich in historical significance, a collection of enormous depth and breadth, assembled with a scholar’s dedication to this extremely popular area of collectibles. For a third party shipping list and other shipping inquiries please contact shipping@quinnsauction.com.
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