The Veteran’s Story (1899 First Edition): Dedicated to the Heroes, Who Wore the Gray
by Ada Christine Lightsey
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/n/a
- Seller
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Wake Forest, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
The Veteran's Story
Ada Christine Lightsey
"Dedicated to the Heroes, Who Wore the Gray"
NOT a print-on-demand and NOT a re-print – the Original hard cover
First Edition First Printing
Copyright April 3rd, 1899
The Meridian News, Printers and Binders - Meridian, Mississippi
51 numbered pages
Approximately 5" X 9"
Hard Cover - original blind-stamped cloth
A good bit of wear and staining to the covers (see photo); pencil marks to inside rear covers (see photo); staining and foxing to several pages (see photos); text pages are relatively clean and unmarked; tearing at spine but still bound (see photo)
Extremely rare in original First Edition – almost always seen as re-print or print-on-demand
"The Confederate memoirs of R. J. Lightsey as told to his daughter. Lightsey served as a private in Co. F (the Jasper Greys), 16th Mississippi Infantry. Includes accounts of Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg. Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Bristoe Station, Spottsylvania, and Appomattox. A well-written account, filled with a number of interesting anecdotes and with a roster of Co. F."
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Details
- Bookseller
- TKAM Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 163
- Title
- The Veteran’s Story (1899 First Edition)
- Author
- Ada Christine Lightsey
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover without dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- n/a
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Meridian News, Printers and Binders
- Place of Publication
- Meridian, Mississippi
- Date Published
- 1899
- Pages
- 51
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- First Printing; War Between the States
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