Table Scraps, First Edition (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. stain on front cover and light crease else very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. First Edition. Octavo, 397pp., illustrated with eight plates, all present. Marginal dampstain throughout, affecting some corners of some illustrations. Some paint residue to the front board, inner hinges starting, the front free endpaper nearly detached, but present. Small owner's name stamp to the front free endpaper and the margin of one text page. A rather worn copy, good at best, but notably free of foxing compared to most examples we've seen. Ryan (37) writes a lengthy entry, noting that the book is full of partial truths and outright falsehoods, which were confirmed in regretful tones by the author later in his life. Barbiere was a Confederate Lieutenant who was interened at both Ohio prisons early in the war, and writes in self-pitying tones about their conditions, trying explicity--and in vain--to compare his experience unfavorably to that of the prisoners at Andersonville. Still an important history of these Union POW camps, with omst interesting original illustrations, and a great frontispiece map of Johnson's Island. Good candidate for a rebind (with professional cleaning of the pages), or suitable as a reading copy.

BARBIERE, Joe. Scraps from the Prison Table, at Camp Chase and Johnson's Island. Doylestown, PA: W.W.H. Davis, Printer, 1868. 1st ed. 397 pp. Illus. Rebound in later cloth with a leather spine label. Faint old water stain in text, else very good. "Contains much on daily life, mainly at Johnson's Island." Nevins I, p. 185. Author was a member of 1st Alabama Infantry.

BARBIERE, Joe. Scraps from the Prison Table, at Camp Chase and Johnson's Island. Doylestown, PA: W.W.H. Davis, Printer, 1868. 1st ed. 397pp. Map frontis., 7 lithographic plates. Orig. cloth. Wear to spine ends and corners, cloth speckled, inner hinges starting, light scattered foxing and toning, else very good. Dornbusch II, 18. Nicholson, p.55. "Contains much on daily life, mainly at Johnson's Island" Nevins I, p.185. Roster of prisoners at Johnson's Island exchanged in 1862; list of commands in prison; list of casualties and changes among commissioned officers after exchange.