The Twin Seven-Shooters
NY: F. Tennyson Neely, 1902. First. Hard Cover. First edition. Royal blue cloth lettered in gilt with gilt cover decoration of two pistols; top edge gilt. INSCRIBED AND DATED AT WARREN, OHIO OCT. 8, 1909: "TO MRS. CAPT. C.F. CHAMBERLAIN/ IN REMEMBERANCE OF OUR ARMY LIFE DURING THE CIVIL WAR AS COMRADES OF YOUR GALLANT HUSBAND, WE SUBSCRIBE OURSELVES MEMBERS OF HIS COMPANY" THEN SIGNED BY 13 UNION ARMY VETERANS WITH NOTATION AFETR EACH "CO. C. 19TH O.V.I.". 54 pp. with ten monochrome plates including frontispiece photographic portrait of Col. Manderson, and photographic portraits of General Wheeler and General George H. Thomas. Civil War reminiscences of Col. Charles F. Manderson of the 19th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, whose troops most famously fought at Stone River (Murfreesboro) and Mission Ridge (Chattanooga). The brace of revolvers of the title were presented to Manderson by his unit after Murfreesboro and rested in the regimental headquarters when this book was published some 40 years later. Cloth still bright with modest rubbing to the spine; all gilt remains bright. There is light dampstaining about the edges of all leaves and while the signatures on the front free endpaper are not blurred, there is some bleed-through on the verso of that page and the facing half-title page. Item #E1858
Price: $495.00