[Rarebooks] fs: Diary of an Enlisted Man (Civil War), 1910

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 8983)   Van Alstyne, Lawrence. DIARY OF AN ENLISTED MAN.
New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1910. First printing, 
Original cloth, Octavo, x, 348 pages, Black & white frontispiece author 
portrait. Near fine.
      Vivid memoir of everyday life for a common soldier in the Civil War. 
Van Alstyne was with the 128th New York Infantry and spent time in Maryland 
and Louisiana. DORNBUSCH, VOL. I, #N532; NEVINS, CWB VOL. I, p. 172. Bound 
in dark green cloth over boards with spine and upper board titled in gilt, 
camp vignette in gilt at center of upper board, decorative endpapers. Prior 
owner bookplate on front pastedown, minor rubs to binding extremities. 
Endpapers showing some splitting along inner margins but hinges remain snug. 
Handsome copy.
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