[Rarebooks] fs: Gen. King inscribed to Gen. Liggett, 1904

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(No. 7480 )  King, Charles. A CONQUERING CORPS BADGE, AND OTHER STORIES OF
THE PHILIPPINES.
Milwaukee: L. A. Rhoades & Company, 1902. First printing, Full cloth,
Octavo, [viii], 309 pages, black & white photographs, sketches. Very Good,
No dust jacket.
      INSCRIBED and SIGNED by King to fellow Army General Hunter Liggett,
dated Christmas, 1904. Charles King was a Union drummer boy in the Civil
War, and for conspicuous battlefield bravery was appointed to West Point by
Lincoln. He was a cavalry officer in the frontier Indian wars and was the
first army officer on the scene after the massacre of Custer and his men at
Little Bighorn. He commanded American forces in many battle and expeditions
in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War, there uttered the
phrase, "There goes the American soldier and all hell can't stop him!" A
larger-than-life figure himself, General King drew upon his Army experiences
in the Civil War, the frontier Indian Wars, and the Spanish-American War to
write over 60 popular and romantic novels of army life. King's obituary is
pasted to front pastedown. Bound in dark blue cloth over boards with white
and gilt-stamped spine, white, red and gilt-stamped upper board. Chipping to
titles on spine and upper board, minor extremity rubs, slight browning to
pages. Rear free endpaper is covered with the working of math problems and a
couple of doodles in pencil. Hinges not cracked.    $150.00
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