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CIVIL WAR GENERAL BEN BUTLER BOOK 1ST EDITION 1892
Highly desirable historic reference for Lincoln scholars and Civil War historians. Publisher A. M. Thayer & Co., Boston, 1892 First Edition.
An attractive copy in very good condition for this 116-year old important subscription book. Illustrated with 125 engravings, etchings, portraits from photographs, maps etc. Frontispiece portrait with printed signature, "compliments of Benj F. Butler." Dark blue, hard cloth cover with embossed decoration, gold title. No Jacket. 7¾" x 9¾" tall. All 1154 pages are present and clean, including appendix, index, 4-page ad for "Oracle of the Age" by Wm. M. Thayer on back pages. Tight and unmarked. Marbelized edges, end papers. Book was sold by subscription, small numbered label inside front cover. Shelf wear at the corners and spine ends. These memoirs focus on General Butler's service in the Civil War. A lengthy appendix contains copies of letters to and from General Butler and reproduction of Lincoln letters on pgs. 389, 569. Bookseller's price for this rare and out of print book $150-$200
No reserve.
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