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Fort Collins:: The Old Army Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good. Blue cloth Very good, tape residue on endpapers, annotations back endpaper. . Introduction by John M Carrolll. 146 pp. facsimile reprint.

Fort Collins CO.: Old Army Press, 1972. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 141 pages + photos, frontis, illustrations, owner name. First printed in 1921. The unit of "colored" soldiers was organized in 1866, and served from Arizona to Montana, in Cuba and Mexico. Of interest is its participation in the Geronimo Campaign in Arizona. One of the scarcest regimentals. Graff 1571..

The Old Army Press, 1972. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Fort Collins, CO: The Old Army Press. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1972. Reprint. Hardcover. Top corner of front cover bumped. ; Illus. , originally published 1921; 141 pages .

Ft. Collins, CO: Old Army Press, 1972. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED & inscribed by John M. Carroll, noted cavalry historian, at the end of his introduction. A history of a distinguished regiment of African-American "Buffalo Soldiers". Crisp and clean copy with slight right lean. Blue cloth with bright gilt print on spine and front board's insignia design, buffalo head with horseshoe. Very minor spine end wear and rear board has a fine spot. Very nice copy with signature of now deceased military history expert.

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.… Read More