American Military

Hardcover. New York & London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, reprint, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 442 pages, b&w illustrations. Maroon cloth, gilt titles to front and spine. Light wear to edges and boards, faint foxing to a few pages. Neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 318 pages. Account of the US Navy from Independence through the War of 1812. 8 maps, numerous illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Wiley & Halsted, 2nd Ed., 1822, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 246, 256 pages, two volumes bound as one. A total of 6 engraved plates - 2 illustrations in vol. I and 4 illustrations in vol. II, but lacks the map, an illustration at page 20, fold-out chart and frontispiece portrait that some dealers describe. Polished brown calf with leather label, gilt lettering still very readable. Previous owner's small stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Auburn NY, Knapp, Peck and Thomson, 1st, 1887, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original red cloth, gilt titles and rules, blind-stamped double border. 581 pages including Errata leaf. Includes several fold-out maps, plus pockets inside the front and rear boards containing maps and plans. Engraved frontispiece of Sullivan, engraved portraits in text of Brigadier General James Clinton, Colonel Peter Gansevoort (from a portrait by Gilbert Stuart, famous for his portrait of George Washington), and Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt. John Sullivan was an American general in the Revolutionary War and a delegate in the Continental Congress. Sullivan served as a major general in the Continental Army and as Governor (or 'President') of New Hampshire. He is most famous for leading the Sullivan Expedition in 1779, a scorched earth campaign against the Iroquois towns that had taken up arms against the American revolutionaries. This volume contains journals by 27 officers present during the campaign, and has become the authoritative primary source of the event. Both front and rear hinges cracked with spine cloth loose, battlefield map at page 288 has a tear but no loss, front signature with title page loose but whole. All other maps present in envelopes and in very good condition. Covers worn.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume XII in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 445 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with light fading, light paper residue to front covers, lacks dust jacket, dj flaps pasted onto front endpapers, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Middletown CT, Clark & Lyman, 2nd Ed., 1821, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 378 pages, frontispiece plus 3 other engraved plates. Rebound with new cloth spine and endpapers, original calf covers present. The frontispiece has some loss to the gutter edge and has been reattached. Image not affected. Moderate foxing throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 456 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. In 1861 William Watson, a native Scot who had established himself as a Louisiana businessman, enlisted in the Confederate forces although still a British subject. In 1887 he penned his memoirs "to give", he said, "a simple narrative of my experience in a war campaign". Far from simple, Watson's work clearly and forcefully describes his experiences with the 3rd Louisiana infantry in battles at Wilson's Creek and Pea Ridge while depicting the mundane aspects of camp life and providing delightful and colorful character sketches of fellow soldiers and officers, including the legendary General Ben McCulloch. But Watson offers much more than the story of a soldier's life. He also provides an excellent depiction of southern society undergoing the crisis of secession and the tumultuous early years of the Civil War.

Hardcover. Hartford, F. A. Brown, 2nd, 1856, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages of main text plus Appendix and 12 pages of Press reviews. Black & white illustrations. Light foxing throughout. Light wear to cloth covers with fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, The Fort Gill Press, 1st, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 313 pages. B&w frontispiece with tissue guard and b&w illustrations throughout. Ex-lib copy with library plate on front endpaper, number front flyleaf, and stamp on title page. on Light edgewear, rubbing to cover edges. Light fraying to top of spine. Else a clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1846, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, 260 and 308 pages, b&w engraved portrait of Jones in Vol.1. Both books bound in half black leather and blue boards with gilt lettering and raised bands on spine, top edge gilt. Previous owner's bookplate inside front covers. Light foxing, mainly to preliminary pages. Beautiful set.

Hardcover. US, Combined Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 312 pages, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. The destruction of George Armstrong Custer's command at Little Bighorn by the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne on 25 June, 1876 has been etched in the national memory and has remained one of America's longest lingering controversies. The Little Bighorn Campaign penetrates the mysteries of Custer's disaster as well as the broader context of the 1876 campaign against the Sioux.

Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, Butternut & Blue, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Hardcover. b/w illustrations throughout. Blue cover boards, black title and design on spine and covers. Dust jacket is unclipped, some scratches/rubbing to back cover, otherwise excellent.

Hardcover. Plattsburgh, NY, O.R. Cook, 1st, 1834, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Original muslin boards with printed paper label on spine. Pages 153 and 154 missing. Front and rear hinges cracked and fragile. Light soil of cover boards. Foxing on pages.

Hardcover. Boston, City of Boston, 1st, 1889, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 274 pages, b&w plates and illustrations. Brown end papers. Brown cloth coverings w/ gilt seal and lettering on spine. Wear and rubbing to covers, corners. Binding weak, several pages loose. Else pages clean and crisp.

Hardcover. Newport, VT, Civil War Enterprises, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 77 pages. Hardcover. Reprint, original publishing date 1868. In excellent shape, clean inside and out. Binding tight. From title page: "The Memorial Record of the Soldiers Who Enlisted from Greensboro, Vermont, to Aid in Subduing the Great Rebellion of 1861-5, Accompanied by a brief History of Each Regiment that Left the state."

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 547 pages. Hardcover. A Special Hall of Fame Edition of 1,000 copies of which this is SIGNED and hand numbered #738/1000 BY THE AUTHOR. Illustrated with 8 pages of black & white photographs. Faint darkening to top right corner, edge of front endpaper. Price clipped dust jacket with light wear - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Unmarked text. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Greensburg PA, privately printed, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, octavo, 25 pages, sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with mild general shelfwear to wrap, stapled binding tight, text clean and unmarked. Includes a b/w sketch by John Trumbull.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 389 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. The commander of a Georgia regiment through much of the Civil War mused later in his memoirs that the heaviest burden fell not upon the man at the front, but upon the woman who waited and prayed for victory: "While the men were carried away with the drunkenness of the war, she dwelt in the stillness of her desolate home." Sallie Brock Putnam spoke for Southern womanhood. She was a native of Madison County, Virginia, and seems to have come from a family of good social standing. The book contains an unexpectedly full history of the Civil War; the author exhibits a strong grasp of strategy and tactics. But at its heart is an incisive eyewitness account of life in a capital that was swollen to four times its normal population by the exigencies of war. Brock's descriptions of Jefferson Davis' inauguration and the Richmond Bread Riot of 1863 are dramatic, but no more so than her accounts of nameless refugees, race relations, opportunistic merchants and blockade runners. Confederate prisons and family matters. In contrast to other female Southern writers of the period, she was more sober and factual, less gossipy and speculative. She wrote with shrewdness and maturity, and with a remarkable lack of self-pity and exaggeration. Yet the reader cannot miss her courage, sacrifice and suffering. Sallie Brock Putnam died in 1911.

Hardcover. New York, Ralph Kenyan, 1st Edition, 1896, 511 pages. Hardcover. Over 200 b/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in gray cloth, beveled at edges, gilt title/decoration on spine, gilt title and decoration on front cover board, designed engraved on back cover board. cover boards have some rubbing and light soil, a touch of fraying to top and bottom of spine. Previous owner's inscription on front preliminary page. Binding tight. Spine slightly cocked. "...From the Diary of a Private, Supplemented and Verified with Official Reports of Federal Officers and Also of Mosby; With Personal Reminiscences, Sketches of Skirmishes, Battles and Bivouacs, Dashing Raids and Daring Adventures, Scenes and Incidents in the History of Mosby's Command."

Hardcover. New York, Baker and Taylor, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering, b&w illustration on cover pastedown, 220 pages. Black & white illustrated. Previous owners stamp on inside front cover.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt title to front and spine. 1486 pages. VOL. 3 ONLY. Includes maps, illustrations, and facsimiles of contemporary documents. Edited by William Bell Clark. Forewords by President John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Introduction by Rear Admiral Ernest McNeill Eller. Illustrations and charts by Commander Dermott V. Hickey and W. Bart Greenwood. Maps on endpapers. Primary documents, letters from the Revolutionary War as it was being fought day by day at sea and in Congress. Letters from Ezra Stiles on the Cannons at Ticonderoga. George Washington to John Hancock on forming the Marines, Master's log of H.M. Nautilus. Philip Schuyler letters Maps. Painting of Ezra Hopkins. Original sketch of the American ship Privateer Washington. Ex-Library copy with tape on spine and embossed stamp on title page. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.