[cover title] The Burning of Columbia
Columbia, SC: William Sloane, Book and Job Printer, 1895. Three Quarter Leather. Near Fine binding. Item #10856
12mo. 12 pp. First edition. Issued in wrappers, here a Sangorski & Sutcliffe three-quarter morocco binding, wrappers are bound in. Cloth is lightly spotted, otherwise an exceptional copy; the wrappers are crisp and contents clean.
Nicholson was present that night in February of 1865. And his voice, added to a number of other eyewitness account is perhaps late in coming, but is an interesting account all the same. Remarkably rare. Seldom seen in commerce, only 4 institutions report ownership according to OCLC. From the library of notable Civil War and Americana collector Charles Sanders, Jr, with his bookplate on the rear pastedown. Wright, N-135; Turnbull IV, p. 345.
Price: $850.00
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