A PAIR OF BLANKETS, War-Time History in Letters to the Young People of the South
New York: Broadway Publishing Co., 1911. Hard Cover. Good binding. Item #6220
12mo. 217, [1 (blank)], [2 (ads)] pp., frontis, port. First edition. As issued, in full cloth with photographic pastedown on the front cover and title and border in red on the front cover and spine. Richmond bookseller stamp of Nat Horwitz on the front pastedown. Significant staining to the fore-edge of the rear cover and some semicircular toning to the front edge of most leaves growing more pronounced further in the book. Otherwise a solid, clean copy. "Its disorganization notwithstanding, these recollections by a colonel of the 61st Virginia possess some usefulness in analyzing Lee's 1964-1865 campaigns" Nevins I, p. 163.
Price: $250.00