The Official History of the Eighty-Sixth Division by (86th INFANTRY DIVISION) - 1921

Chicago: States Publications Society, 1921. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt and black lettering, black rules and black and red emblem. ix, 319pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Very good. Faint binding edgewear, though internally tight and near fine. Quite nice, attractive first edition of this thorough history of this infantry division active in World Wars One (where it saw no action) and Two. Very uncommon. Tiny inkstamped ownership name on front flyleaf (presumably a G.I.) and laid in the perfect bookmark: 1923 letter in original envelope from People Gas Light & Coke Company to this G.I.s family refuting their claim of being overcharged in their gas bill.