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Featuring rare artifacts, documents, ephemera, photography, and weaponry relating to the American Civil War. The catalog's emphasis is the Battle of Gettysburg and includes offerings from the collection of noted Gettysburg scholar, Marshall D. Krolick.
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Lot 435

[CIVIL WAR] Mosby's Memoirs First Edition

Estimate: $250 - $500
Starting Bid
$100

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Provenance: Marshall D. Krolick Collection

 

John Singleton Mosby. Charles Wells Russell, editor. The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby.  Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1917. 

 

8vo. Frontispiece portrait. Original publisher's olive green cloth with facsimile signature gilt to front board. FIRST EDITION. Nevins II, p. 78.

 

Ownership inscription to front free endpaper: "James B Settles / 1926".

 

In the twilight of his life, John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916) penned his recollections of the war with the assistance of his brother-in-law. Published posthumously, the work includes some of his letters. 

 

[Civil War, Union, Confederate] [Books, Bibles, Soldiers' Bibles, Prayer Books, Ephemera, Pamphlets, Publications, Booklets, Memoirs]

Fading and loss of lettering to spine. 

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