My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience As Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps, and at the Front, during the War of Rebellion, with Anecdotes, Pathetic Incidents, and Thrilling Reminiscences Portraying the Lights and Shadows of Hospital Life and the Sanitary Service of the War
by Livermore, Mary A
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- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good
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About This Item
Hartford, CT: A.D. Worthington and Company. Good. 1890. Hardcover. Banded, rust half leather binding, with brown cloth boards rubbed at extremities, very slightly cocked; backstrip, corners abraded; leather along front gutter splitting; boards soiled & scuffed; hinges cracked; front hinge reinforced with glue; one intro page detached but present; name pencilled on rear paste-down; a few leaves chipped at edges; corners of a few leaves bent; leaf edges, paste-downs, endpapers foxed/smudged. No dj. ; Many good b&w ils., showy color flag plates; front endpaper gift inscribed to Dr. Hood March, and signed by Captain Henry S. LaTourrette. (85th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Civil War) ; 8vo; 700 pages; Signed by Notable Personage, Unrelated .
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- Bookseller
- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49208
- Title
- My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience As Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps, and at the Front, during the War of Rebellion, with Anecdotes, Pathetic Incidents, and Thrilling Reminiscences Portraying the Lights and Shadows of Hospital Life and the Sanitary Service of the War
- Author
- Livermore, Mary A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- A.D. Worthington and Company
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, CT
- Date Published
- 1890
- Keywords
- American Civil War History, Antique Civil War Memoirs, Women in the American Civil War, Signed by Captain Henry S. LaTourette
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