THE SECRET SERVICE IN THE LATE WAR . With the Origin and Organization of the Detective Police, .

Published by W. H. Harrison, Jr. [ 1887 ], Chicago, 1887

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Octavo; 398 pages, publisher's decorated grey cloth, very soiled, torn a foot of top joint, upper right corner of floral front free endpaper chipped, pencilled ownership in Minnesota dated "Nov [?] 30th / 87"; broken hinges repaired with cloth tape. "Allegedly based in part on notes made by Baker at various times, the account examines his career in the "secret service" during the war (as a spy and later special provost marshal) and his controversial involvement in Andrew Johnson's administration in the two years following the war." - Eichner no. 444. Woodcuts, engraved frontispiece. Note: there were many reprints of Baker's 1867 first edition. This edition was copyrighted by John K. Potter in 1874. This Harrison variant is quite scarce, and the pencilled date is the best evidence of its time of publication.

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Title
THE SECRET SERVICE IN THE LATE WAR . With the Origin and Organization of the Detective Police, .
Author
BAKER, Gen. L.C., General; Lafayette C. Baker
Publisher
W. H. Harrison, Jr. [ 1887 ], Chicago
Publication year
1887
Condition
Poor
Binding
Hardcover
Illustrator
woodcuts, engraved frontisp
Edition
New Edition.
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american civil war 1861-1865, civil war, civil war 1861-1865, UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE

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Joyce And Company, established 1975, works out of an office near Chicago's Loop. There are usually 15-20,000 books on-site and available for browsing. Mr. Joyce was a founding partner of the former Chicago Rare Book Center, of Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Proprietor Tom Joyce appeared regularly as the book appraiser on "The Appraisal Fair", seen on Home And Garden Television, HGTV. We still do appraisals on a wide variety of subjects, from literature to history, fine books, children's, presses, theology, law, medicine, maps, autographs. These topics are reflected in our inventory, and much more, including Sherlockiana. In addition to regional institutions nearby Chicago and Illinois, we have been able to place rare materials with the American Antiquarian Society, The Library of Congress, The Bodleian Library, Harvard and Yale Universities, the Presidential Libraries of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, et cetera.

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