Battle Balls Bluff by Patch Joseph Dorst (14 results)

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

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.

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.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 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).

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].

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.