Description
First edition of My Story of the War by Mary A. Livermore, published in 1888.
Octavo, [2], 700pp, [2]. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. Floral endpapers. Frontispiece portrait with tissue cover. Complete with frontispiece, eight full page illustrations of battle scenes and eight full page color illustrations of battle flags. All illustrations with tissue covers, frontispiece tissue with closed tear. Previous ownership inscription on the verso of the frontispiece portrait, dated 1890. Sturdy text block.
(Nevins II, 130) (Eicher, 637) (Dornbusch IV, 1834)
The true first edition of this work by Mary Livermore.
My Story Of The War details the wartime activities of a journalist and social worker during the Civil War. It describes military hospitals in St. Louis, with descriptions of the sanitary conditions and her efforts to improve hygiene. Livermore also describes her meeting with Ulysses S. Grant before the battle of Vicksburg.
