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Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Thick octavo. L, [1], 1242 pages, [2]. Marbled paper covered boards with leather corners and spine. Marbled text edges. Gilt title on the spine. Leather spine chipped and worn at the edges. Front board is worn and scuffed. Front hinge is broken and glued back. Warping to the text block with light damp stained text edges. No mold or mildew. Very light toning to the text. A useful reference. Fair condition only.

First Edition . Disbound. Fine. Complete, original disbound issue in fine condition.

Boston: Combination Publishing Company, 1886. About good.. Broadsheet, 11.75 x 8.5 inches. Old folds, a few slight losses not affecting text. Lightly soiling and moderate wear. Ephemeral broadsheet advertising a new book, "A True Romance of the Rebellion" by Cyrus S. Haldeman, a veteran of the Civil War. "The story is unusually well written, and is very interesting within itself; but it carries with it an earnest appeal for a wise revision of the present Pension Laws, which are so cruelly unjust to thousands of deserving veterans." In addition to its narrative, it contains "official tables, showing the enormous sums of money paid by the Government to our Bondholders...and the meagre amounts, in proportion, paid in Pensions to soldiers for the use of their bodies, together with other information which every old soldier should have, so that he may advocate his own cause in an intelligent manner." Includes information for pricing and orders. The verso contains an excerpt with a large woodcut… Read More

Philadelphia: Burk & McFetridge, Lithographers, U.S. Army, 1887. Folio. 11.5 x 15.5 in. [87 leaves (unnumbered).], 87 chromolithograph plates for title and flags throughout, all mounted on linen hinges as issued. Brown pebbled publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering front cover, decorated endpapers (front inner hinge starting, very faint tidemark & bubbling to cloth of fore-edges of front cover, minor wear & bumping to corners), still a VG bright copy, w/ plates quite sharp. First edition of this lavish work reproducing the flags carried by U.S. Army infantry, cavalry, and artillery units during the Civil War featuring headquarters flags, battle flags, corps flags, pennants, and guidons. Following the Civil War both Sherman and Sheridan attempted to regularize unit flags, and recommended that battle names be omitted from the flag and unit registers. This work compiled by US Army Brig. Gen. Holabird (1826-1907), was carried out towards the end of his service as Quartermaster which ended June 16, 1890.… Read More