Minty Cavalry, First Edition (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Hinges broken, binding a bit loose but holding. Pages tanned. Cloth over boards is splitting at joints with spine. Bright gilt design on front. Bright gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with steel engravings, black and white maps. ; The title refers to Robert Horatio George Minty, whose cavalry tactics were imporant to the Union Army in the western theater of the Civil War. ; Ex-Library; 9.25" tall; 550 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Green cloth, with gilt decoration on front board, spine. General edge wear, with fraying at spine ends, corners frayed, and lower corners worn to board. Paper is lightly age toned, former owner's name inside front. Stitching is visible on front inner hinge (binder's flaw). A solid copy of this original Union memoir. 13 illustrations, 6 full page maps. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 550 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. First edition, signed and numbered 17 out of 100 copies. No dust jacket. Very Good hardcover with light shelfwear - NICE! Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First edition. 8vo. [2], iii-xxxi, [1], 1-550, [4] pp. Green cloth with a gilt decoration of a flag and rifle on the front board, gilt lettering and rules on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with eleven plates (One of the plates called for is missing, but there is no evidence of its removal. It is possible that this copy was accidentally bound without it). All maps that are called for are present. Howes V-10. General David Sloane Stanley fought for the Union Army, and saw action in Kentucky and Tennesse, among other places. He later fought against several Native American tribes in the latter nineteenth-century, during the U.S. Government's campaign to displace Native peoples from their homes. Some surface-rubbing to the cloth, otherwise a sharp example.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. very nice copy; #115/270 copies; signed by Bitter. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Vale, Joseph G. : Minty and the Cavalry. A History of Cavalry Campaigns in the Western Armies. Harrisburg (PA) : Edwin K. Meyers, 1886. First printing/no additional printings listed. A first edition **association copy** owned by a **participant in the campaigns described, glowingly mentioned in the text**. A well-regarded history of Union cavalry operations: Nevins says ".presents an undiluted picture of war; especially valuable for Sherman's campaigns."Octavo (8vo), 9.25"/23.3 cm h. Bound in publisher's green patterned cloth, gilt lettering to spine, ornamentation to spine and front board. Plain white endpapers. [one sheet not accounted for in pagination],[i-ii], iii-xxxi, [xxxii], 1-550, [551-554] blank; 18 sheets portraits & maps [19 listed in t-o-c, but lacks 'Stanley at Franklin, xxvi, with no evidence of removal]. Condition notes: a very good copy, with solid binding and moderate wear to boards. Spine ends rolled/corners bumped.Ownership stamp "W.H. Longsdorf" in green ink to recto frontispiece and title page. Major William H. Longsdorf, M.D. (1834-1905), of Carlisle (PA) served in the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, serving 1861-1865. The author (also of Carlisle) leads chapter XV (p. 221) with a laudatory poem by one of Longsdorf's daughter's, and approvingly mentions Longsdorf's leadership (p. 477) in the action at Moore's Hill (near Tompkinsville, KY, in June 1862), where he took command after the death of his superior, Captain Hugh McCullough. P. 486 describes Longsdorf's leadership in September, 1864 near Murfreesboro, TN, in defeating Confederate forces. He is also listed in the regimental roster at p. 544. We personally inspect every book we offer.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. CIVIL WAR SOLDIER'S COPY. Green cloth with gilt decoration to the front board. Gilt title and decoration to the spine. Headcap and tailcap expertly repaired. Slight wear to the corners. Frontispiece. An additional eleven illustrations plus six maps. Head and Tail Pieces. Inscribed by Private Oscar Wilber, Fourth Michigan, Co. F Cavalry, to the front free endpaper. A nice square tight copy. Size: 6.5" x 9.5" Language: eng. Signed by Participant(s).

VALE, Joseph G. Minty and the Cavalry. A History of the Cavalry Campaigns in the Western Armies. Harrisbury, 1886. 1st ed. Illus. maps. 550pp. A fine copy in orig. cloth. Howes V-10.