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Author: Biddle, Ellen McGowan
Title: Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife
Place: Philadelphia
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott
Date: 1907
Item # : 193721
Sale Number   387
Lot Number   49
Sale Name    
Americana - Travel & Exploration - Cartography
Sale Date   09/11/2008
Price realized   $ 180
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Description:
259 pp. Illustrated with 14 black and white plates from photographs. 7¾x5¼, original light blue cloth lettered in dark blue on front cover, in gilt on spine, gilt crossed swords on front cover, top edge gilt. First Edition.
Accompanying 5x4 original photograph of the author and two other women playing musical instruments. Graff calls the book "A very good account of Army life at western posts after the Civil War." Graff 288; Howes B426.
Condition:
Spine tips rubbed, a little cover soiling; endpapers lightly foxed, else very good.
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