Minty and the Cavalry: A History of Cavalry Campaigns in the Western by VALE, Joseph G

Forgotten Books. VG. Oversize paperback

Cornell University Library, 2009-07-08. Paperback. Good.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Edwin K. Meyers, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Hinges broken, binding a bit loose but holding. Pages tanned. Cloth over boards is splitting at joints with spine. Bright gilt design on front. Bright gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with steel engravings, black and white maps. ; The title refers to Robert Horatio George Minty, whose cavalry tactics were imporant to the Union Army in the western theater of the Civil War. ; Ex-Library; 9.25" tall; 550 pages.

E.K. Meyers, printers, 1886-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Cover shows minor wear, rubbing, slight tears at the corners. Name of former owner in the prelims. Pages lightly tanned.

Harrisburg, PA: Edwin K. Meyers, Printer and Binder, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo. [2], iii-xxxi, [1], 1-550, [4] pp. Green cloth with a gilt decoration of a flag and rifle on the front board, gilt lettering and rules on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with eleven plates (One of the plates called for is missing, but there is no evidence of its removal. It is possible that this copy was accidentally bound without it). All maps that are called for are present. Howes V-10. General David Sloane Stanley fought for the Union Army, and saw action in Kentucky and Tennesse, among other places. He later fought against several Native American tribes in the latter nineteenth-century, during the U.S. Government's campaign to displace Native peoples from their homes. Some surface-rubbing to the cloth, otherwise a sharp example.