Edited by William H Goetzmann (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Without dust jacket as issued. First thus. Originally published by Stringer & Townsend, New York, 1854. 12mo 6 7/8" tall, lxxxiv + 347 pages, gilt top fore-edge, gilt titles on decorated brown cloth. A near fine, clean, neat, unread hardcover with no shelf wear, binding tight, paper cream white. Issued without dust jacket. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. a nice, clean, square copy, 12mo, 354 pages, brown cloth, top edge gilt.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First thus. From the publisher: "A Narrative from the Mexican War. There is hardly a book that gives so intelligent and lively a description of the actualities of the war in Mexico, and hardly a work in the English language which presents so interesting a picture of a soldier's life - his round of conversation, his employments, his toils, dangers and escapes - what he sees and does, and how he does it - as this autobiography. The reader will find it difficult to part company with the author. There is no "fine writing" to pall upon the taste. Everything is told naturally, and everything is described earnestly." The Lakeside Press was a publisher created by the Chicago printing company, R. R. Donnelly. Beginning in 1903, it produced an annual reprint of a work of American history as a Christmas gift to its suppliers and employees. These works were not generally sold to the public. This copy is fine in brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine and a gilt publisher's emblem on the front cover. No marks or damage at all. No DJ as issued. SC.…

Condition: Very Good. Very gentle wear to extremities. Light marks to outer page edge. Contents clean throughout.