Search Results: personal memoirs of ph sheridan general by sheridan ph

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888. First Edition, First Printing. . Leather. Poor/No Jacket (as issued). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover 87vo in full leather w/ red sand black spine medallions, gilt titles, red topstain. Poor. Cloth scuffed, front gutter pull w/ loose hinges, rear board almost detached, hanging on by a thread, rear pages have small stain at corner, else Fine and unmarked. 486pp inc. Index; illustrated in photos and reproductions, fold-out maps. Candidate for rebind? Volume II only.

NY: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888. (USA) First edition: date of 1888 on title page and 1888 on copyright page. No markigns, repair to the front hinge, several light small spots to bottom portion of fornt cover, a bit of rubbing to the cover corner tips. Good only use copy: no dust jacket perhaps as published. Green cloth, gold titles with image of Sheridan on a horse, tan patterned end papers, xi, 486pp, index, Frontis portrati and 8 B&W illus; 14 maps, some are fold-out (the large one facing page 26 has a tear in it). Philip Henry Sheridan was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with General-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant. (2.9 JM HOQ 100/2. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888. These are Good only copies of Sheridan's memoirs. Full sheep leather binding; ruled and titled in gilt on the spine within red and black compartments. Clean texts; Volume One is 500 pages, with a frontis portrait; Volume Two is xi, 486 pages. Indexed, and with a frontis portrait. Marbled endpapers. Owner signature on the second FEP and bookplate on the front paste-down; signature also in Volume Two. Unfortunately, these books have been ill-treated in some way, with the result that the covers, while present, have been detached. Please note the condition issues. Quercus must offer these books as Binding Copies, in need of restoration or repair. Quercus offers that these are excellent candidates for a quality rebind, so the may be enjoyed for another few hundred years.. First Edition. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York.: Charles L. Webster., 1888.. First edition.. Gilt decorated hard covers.. Volume I missing title page and front end papers. Name on end paper, vol. II. Otherwise very nice, bright set.. Octavo.. Two volumes. Illustrated. Folding plates. Volume I: All maps present. Volume II: Lacks the Battlefield of Winchester map. Important reference work.

New York: Charles L. Webster & Co, 1888. Two volumes. First edition. 8vo.; xiii, (1), 500; xi, (1), 486 pp. Frontis. portraits in each volume; illustrations and maps (some folding). Gilt stamped green cloth; gilt illustration on front of each volume; shoulderstrap edition [with the black and gilt epaulettes on the spines]. Light wear to spine ends, and minor rubbing to cloth. A very good set.

1888. SHERIDAN, Philip. Personal Memoirs of..., General, U.S. Army. N.Y., 1888. 1st ed. Two vols. Illus. maps. A very good set in orig. cloth.

2 volumes, engraved portrait frontispieces, wood engravings and maps, some folding. (8vo) original gilt decorated green cloth. Light wear to cloth, corners bumped; erasure marks on flyleaves from removal of previous owner's name, normal aging and browning; very good. A nice set. One of the Union Army's great heroes in the Civil War. He was ruthless in attacks on the Confederacy his destruction of Atlanta made him both feared and hated in the South. After serving with distinction in the Civil War, most notably as commander of the Union cavalry, Sheridan was transferred west, where he oversaw the settling of the Indians on reservations. Some feel Sheridan was hostile to Native Americans, and that showed in his treatment of them. He eventually rose to command the United States Army.