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I am rearranging/cataloguing my library and came across an old find that has been boxed for a while:
First Printing
Condition: Fair.
Author: W. Fletcher Johnson
Title:
"Life of General W.M. Tecumseh Sherman"
Date: 1891
Got a couple of others in the same date range. Oldest is 1875 and in "good+" shape, but they're not as interesting.
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I am currently reading about General William Tecumseh Sherman and his involvement with the Navajo people, in a great book called Blood and Thunder, by Hampton Sides.
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If we are going to talk about ole Military Biographies, how about this one?
First Edition: Farragut and Other Great Commanders by W.H. Davenport Adams
The front endpage has an inscription of "December 12, 1887."
Publishing date, unknown, but it was published prior to 1884 since it was published prior to the death of Admiral David Dixon Porter, who died in that year.
I've not read the book because I fear it will not stand up to the handling, the title page and some of the endpages are already loose. The binding, tooled leather over cardboard, is in fair condidtion for the age. It even retains some of the gilding.
I also have one volume of a multi-volume set on "The Illustrated History of the War of Rebellion" that is largely made up of reprints of newspaper woodcuts. It has been rebound, dammit!, but I'm pretty sure it dates back to the late 1860's or early 1870's.
And somewhere about the house, I have a copy of "The Maroons of Florida," published in 1850.
On a lighter note, I have a couple of volumes of Kipling poetry that date back into the 1890's.
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I'm not a big military history buff, but do collect first edition books, specifically chess books and Edgar Rice Burroughs. I think my earliest ones date from the late 1700's (I think 1790) by Philidor, who is considered the father of modern chess. His famous quote is, "Pawns are the soul of chess." I also have a signed edition by him (very rare) and a copy of a Libretto from one of his operas. Old books are very cool...at least to me.
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