Description
First edition of Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan, the shoulder strap edition.
Octavo, [two volumes], xiii, 500pp; xi, 486pp. Green cloth, title in gilt on spines, decorative gilt illustration on covers, shelf wear to tips of spines. Frontispiece portrait with tissue cover in each volume. Solid text block in both volumes, both hinges solid. Multiple fold-out maps and illustrations, complete in both volumes. (Nevins II: 88) (Eicher 572) Clean pages, bright illustrations, a near fine example.
This volume includes the original blue subscription card from the J.B. Lippincott Company, purchased by a gentleman in Lisbon, Iowa. This invoice was signed for by “J. Hoover,” a distant relative of President Herbert Hoover.
