Geer Captain (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, very slight lean, otherwise a Fine copy in illustrated boards.

285p and 2p ads, cloth, illustrated including engraved portrait as frontis, some loosening, binding slightly cocked, good. Ohioan captured at Shiloh and held prisoner in Confederate prisons.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 285+pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding moderately soiled and rubbed w/ wear to extremities. Spine a bit sunned. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Light foxing throughout. Tissue guard for frontispiece detached. Illust. w/ b/w drawings.

Condition: Good. duodecimo. 1864 2nd printing of this scarce first-hand Civil War account. Brown cloth. Square tight binding. Clean interior. 285 pp + ads. Mild rubbing and edge wear with light soiling to binding. small chip to crown of spine. Gilt titling on spine somewhat faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. a rare 1st civil narrative to appear during the course of the war for the Union. Full title is Beyond the lines, or a Yankee Prisoner Loose in Dixie. Original embossed gilt cloth, J. W. Daughaday, Publisher. Philadelphia 1863, 1863. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo, Original brown embossed cloth, 285 numbered pages, original yellow endpapers. Exciting Civil War narrative which relates the story of the author's imprisonment, trial and subsequent escape. Chapter headings include such titles as: Inquisitive Negroes, An Ingenious Darkey, Southern Inhumanity, Prison Telegraph, Negro Sale Stables, Murder of Lieutenant Bliss, A Southern Unionist in the Rebel Army, Persued by Horses, Hounds, and Men, An Alligator, Introduction by Rev. Alexander Clark. Usual wear, but a tight copy under mylar jacket, tissue guard, engraved frontis, all plates are fine, profusely illustrated with wood engravings full page, a rare book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 285 pps plus one page of adv. Stamped faded boards, sunned and faded spine. Gathering of pps. 145-156 separating and all pages through frontice detached. Frontice foxed all around photo. Internally very scattered foxing.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine Copy First 1863/1863. Classic on American Civil War. Book Plate.Excellent Preserved Copy.