Joseph Dorst Patch (20 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Keen, Marjorie (illustrator). A beautiful crisp uncracked unmarked softcover copy in near fine condition, faint edgewear to extremities.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. 123pp. Grey cloth, gilt lettering and decoration. Book is clean and sound, spine sunned, contents are clean and unmarked.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. Clean cover and text. Dust jacket has small tears around edges. Partial contents: Narrative Account of the Battle; Battle Reports of the Union Officers; Battle Reports of the Confederate Officers. ---- We are a Benedictine Abbey / Seminary library; thank you for your support.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No edition or printing stated. book has minor soiling to covers with no writing or marking, 123 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. very nice copy.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. (Civil War, Virginia, History) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Solid copy with crease-free spine, internally clean. BP/US Civil War.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 120 pages. Hardcover with maps to endpapers. Grey cloth covers with gilt titles & decoration to covers & spine. Toning to preliminary pages. Dust jacket with faint foxing, light wear small tear to edges. Light foxing to top edge. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy. Record # 750485.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition. A Very Good copy in lightly soiled tan cloth, tight and clean within. The copyright page states that this is a limited edition, but the limitation is not specified. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. nice copy; precedes the limited edition; with signed letter from Patch to Truman Smith (American army officer). Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. nice copy; limited edition; inscribed by Patch to Truman Smith (American army officer). Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. N.D. (1962) Original wraps, 21 pages, illustrations, minor wear, signed by the author. Apache campaign, Geronimo, Lawton, McKenzie, Tombstone, the Earps, Doc, Holliday, etc. Six-Guns 1691.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edtion. First Edtion. Soft Cover. 21pp. plus photo and map. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 21 pp., maps, photographs. A near fine copy with age toning to the spine but fine internally with no markings or book plates. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with a short inscription. A well done chronicle of the history of this important southern Arizona fort from 1540 to 1960. Uncommon signed! Six Guns #1691. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. Good condition. (History, American History, civil War).

Wraps. Keen, Marjorie (End Papers--theatre and Battle Map (illustrator). Glued binding. [2], 123, [3] p. Endpaper maps. Illustrations, black & white. Bibliography. Index Excerpts from an obituary posted on-line: "Gen. Patch was author of several books on military history. Gen. Patch entered the Army in 1911 as a second lieutenant and during the Pancho Villa raids serving under Gen. John J. Pershing. In 1917, he went overseas with the first Army troops. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and received the Purple Heart. He was promoted to captain during World War I and served as major general during World War II." From Wikipedia: "The Battle of Ball's Bluff in Loudoun County, Virginia on October 21, 1861, was one of the early battles of the American Civil War, in which Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan s Army of the Potomac suffered defeat. The operation was planned as a reconnaissance to establish whether the Confederates were occupying Leesburg. Brig. Gen. Stone clashed with enemy forces. Colonel Edward Baker, tried to reinforce the Union troops, but the river crossings were delayed by a shortage of boats. Baker was killed." Good. Cover has some wear and soiling. Limited Edition [number printed not known].

Wraps. 22, [2] p. Includes illustrations. Published circa 1963 (derived from text on page 3). The author was a retired Major General, U.S. Army. He was a member of the Loudoun Country Historical Society. An excerpt for his obituary reads: "A career Army man, Gen. Patch was author of several books on military history: "Concentration of Gen. Zachary Taylor's Army at Corpus Christi, Texas, " published in 1962. "The Battle of Bladensburt, " in 1963; "Bloody Shiloh, " in 1964; "Hannibal, 249-183 B.C., " in 1965, and "A Soldier's War, " about the First Division in World War I, in 1966. Gen. Patch had been a member of the First Division. Born in Ft. Huachuca, Ariz., the son of an Army officer, Gen. Patch entered the Army in 1911 as a second lieutenant and was sent to this area and the Rio Grande Valley during the Pancho Villa raids, serving under Gen. John J. Pershing. In 1917, he went overseas with the first Army troops, which became part of the First Division. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism at Soissons in 1918, and received the Purple Heart for wounds suffered in the battle. He was promoted to captain during World War I and served as brigadier general and major general during World War II. He retired in 1945." Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Presumed first edition/first printing thus.

PATCH, Joseph Dorst. The Battle of Ball's Bluff. Leesburg, VA: Potomac Press, [1958]. 1st ed. 123pp. Illus., portraits, plates, maps, map endpapers. Orig. gilt-pictorial cloth. A very good or better copy. "This slender volume on a neglected engagement includes battle reports as well as Northern and Southern newspaper accounts" Nevins I, p.40. .

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 144. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1958 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 144.

PATCH, Joseph Dorst. The Battle of Ball's Bluff. Leesburg, Va., [1958]. 1st ed. Illus. maps. 123pp. Fine in orig. cloth, d/j.