Personal Progress, Signed (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. This copy has been dated in the year of issue ["10-29-92"], inscribed and signed ["Mark"] by the author at the top of the front free endpaper. 291 pages, works cited, index. Fine copy in Near Fine Dust Wrapper witha few nicks to the spine heel See photos clphE.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. SIGNED FLAT BY THE AUTHOR ARNOLD PALMER ON THE FRONT END PAGE, NOT PERSONALIZED, FIRST EDITION, THE DUST JACKET IS WATER DAMAGED ON THE INTERIOR AND IS NOT VISIBLE ON THE EXTERIOR, THE BOOK IS NOT WATER DAMAGED, PAMFLET IS INCLUDED, pages clean and crisp, covers clean, no highlighting or underlining. 100% Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. Thank you for your interest. We ship the same day or the next business day. b60. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Small octavo. Original brown pebbled cloth boards. There's a a brief inscription and signature by the author under his frontispiece portrait, that's probably a fascimile. Good overall condition. Faded early inscription on ffep, edges worn, spine ends frayed, hinges loose, scattered light foxing. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Green hardcover shows wear at edges, loss of cloth and bumping at corners and spine ends.Cloth covers show rubbing and slight soiling. INSCRIBED ON THE SECOND ENDPAPER BY GEORGE W. RANCK. Frontis and title pages have tape at gutters, SEE PHOTOS. The 428 pages are clean but the edges of pages show tanning with light soil. A great history of the Lexington area. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. viii+591 pages with frontispiece, plates and drawings from Frederick Remington. Small quarto (10" x 7 1/2") bound in original publisher's brown decorated cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial to spine and cover. Full title: Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War or From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development and Progress of Our Great Western Empire. With signature of General Nelson A. Miles laid in. (Howes M595, Rader 2397, Luther High Spot 144, Graff 2789; Howes M595) First edition. Later issue with Miles' rank given as "Major-General" on the frontispiece portrait In July 1866, Miles was appointed a colonel in the Regular Army. In April 1867 he was appointed assistant commissioner of the North Carolina Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, serving under bureau commissioner Brigadier General Oliver O. Howard. On June 30, 1868, he married Mary Hoyt Sherman (daughter of Charles Taylor Sherman, niece of William T. Sherman and John Sherman, and granddaughter of Charles R. Sherman). In March 1869, he became commander of the 5th U.S. Infantry Regiment, a position he held until 1880. Miles played a leading role in nearly all of the U.S. Army's campaigns against the American Indian tribes of the Great Plains, among whom he was known as "Bearcoat" (for his characteristic bearskin coat). In 1874-1875, he was a field commander in the force that defeated the Kiowa, Comanche, and the Southern Cheyenne along the Red River. Between 1876 and 1877, he participated in the campaign that scoured the Northern Plains after Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer's defeat at the Battle of the Little Big Horn and forced the Lakota and their allies onto reservations. In the winter of 1877, he drove his troops on a forced march across eastern Montana to intercept the Nez Perce band led by Chief Joseph after the Nez Perce War. For the rest of his career, Miles would quarrel with General Oliver O. Howard over credit for Joseph's capture. In December 1880, Miles was promoted to brigadier general in the Regular Army. He was then assigned to command the Department of the Columbia (1881-85) and the Department of Missouri (1885-86). In 1886, Miles replaced General George Crook as commander of forces fighting against Geronimo, a Chiricahua Apache leader, in the Department of Arizona. Crook had relied heavily on Apache scouts in his efforts to capture Geronimo. Instead, Miles relied on white troops, who eventually traveled 3,000 miles without success as they tracked Geronimo through the tortuous Sierra Madre Mountains. Finally, First Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood, who had studied Apache ways, succeeded in negotiating a surrender, under the terms of which Geronimo and his followers agreed to spend two years on a Florida reservation. Geronimo agreed on these terms, being unaware of the real plot behind the negotiations (that there was no intent to let them go back to their native lands). The exile included even the Chihuahuas who had worked for the army, in violation of Miles' agreement with them. Miles denied Gatewood any credit for the negotiations and had him transferred to the Dakota Territory. During this campaign, Miles's special signals unit used the heliograph extensively, proving its worth in the field. The special signals unit was under the command of Captain W.A. Glassford. In 1888, Miles became the commander of the Military Division of the Pacific and the Department of California. Condition: Cloth rubbed, corners and spine tips softened; bookplate else very good. Signed by Author(s).

1862, 1st edition. (Cloth) Poor. 458pp + adverts. 12mo. Brown cloth boards; thrice-lined border blindstamped to front and rear boards; lettering in gilt to spine, faded. Spine sunned. Chipping at heel of spine 1 / 2" of cloth lose at head of spine; splitting at head of front hinge. Boards shaken, but attached. First twelve leaves detached, adjoining tender. Foxing. Frontispiece, plates. Inscribed by author beneath frontispiece. An accessible complete copy of this important first edition.

xxxii+424+32pp. 8vo. Colour fold out maps, Original cloth, gilt lettering and decoration, backstrip a little sunned small chip from ffe. . A very good copy. First edition, signed and inscribed by the author in 1889, during his triumphal visit to Melbourne.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Blue clloth binding slightly rubbed at extremities; backstrip yellowed; boards lightly scuffed/smudged; owner's name & sm. stain to front paste-down; leaf edges, paste-downs, eps, tp, some margins & leaves foxed, else a very sturdy, tight & clean volume, w/ note from author bound-in. ; Nice b&w ils.; presentation note written & signed by author bound in before frontis ils. ; 12mo; 458 pages; Signed by Author.

Publisher's deluxe first edition of this autobiography of a great military general; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Quarto, bound in full crushed morocco with gilt titles to the front panel, images of a cannon and trumpet stamped in blind, all edges gilt, gilt patterned floral endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of General Nelson A. Miles, copiously illustrated with pictures by Frederic Remington and other eminent artists. P. T. Shermanâs bookplate to the front pastedown. In good condition, loss to the spine, splitting to the hinges, rubbing and loss to the extremities of the front and rear panels. General William Tecumseh Shermanâs son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he was appointed the New York Commissioner of Labor. He transferred his library to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch, the granddaughter of General Sherman through his eldest daughter, Maria âMinnieâ Ewing Sherman Fitch, before he died. Until now, the book was held at the family estate in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Nelson A. Miles was an American military general who served in the American Civil War, the American Indian Wars, and the Spanishâ"American War. From 1895 to 1903, Miles served as the last Commanding General of the United States Army, before the office was retooled as Chief of Staff of the Army.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Oversized hardcover. Bound in decorative brown cloth with black, gold, and white stamped decorations on the cover; gold lettering on the spine. Some mild corner bumps, but overall binding good and tight. Decorative endpapers. Title page dated 1897. 591 pages. There are two pages that are detached from their quires and set back in place -- pages 275-278 and 399-402. Both just need a bead a glue to be fully restored to their proper places. Text block tight, other than that. Pages overall a mite toned from age. This copy has a photograph of General Miles in full regalia mounted to board and affixed to the back side of the front free endpaper, with inscription below, 'For Mrs Walker with the compliments and best wishes of Nelson A. Miles, Lt General, U.S. Army. Washington DC April 18th 1922.' The book is also signed on the blank page facing the photograph, 'For Mrs. S. M. Walker with the compliments and best wishes of the Author, Nelson A. Miles. Lieut General U.S. Army." Miles entered the US Army as a volunteer when the Civil War began. He rose to the rank of Major General by the end of the war, though only 26 years old. He remained in the army for another 38 years, serving on the western frontier and in the Spanish American War. Illustrations by Frederick Remington and others. Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that it's an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book. Signed by Author(s).

Part I. Itinerary of the Tour of a Revisit. Part II. A Series of Articles on General Questions of Australasia, The Colonies, and the Empire Generally. First edition. 3 coloured extending maps. 8vo. Original green cloth, slightly rubbed at joints, lacks front free endpaper, inscription to title-page. Very good otherwise. xxxii, 423, 32ads.pp. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, This copy bears a signed inscription from the author, dated May 1889, at the head of the title page.