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BIDDLE, ELLEN MCGOWAN.  Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife.
Philadelphia:, J.B. Lippincott Company,, 1907. First edition. Frontis. port., 13 plates of ports. and scenes from photographs. 8 1/2 x 5 3/8. Original gilt-decorated blue cloth with black lettering on front and gilt spine title. Former owner's signature on front, blank end paper and dated January 1908, slight wear at spine ends, else Fine. Post Civil War Army life.Graff 288. Howes , USiana, b426. Pp. 80-97 re life at Camp Halleck, Nev. in early 1870s. Not in Paher.'s Nevada Bibliography, Very Scarce in the 1st edition in this condition.
USD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 100.25 | £UK 90.25 | JP¥ 13239] Book number: 1256
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BOYD, F.A. ( MRS. ORSEMUS BRONSON).  Cavalry Life in Tent and Field.
New York:, J. Selwin Tait & Sons,, 1894. First edition. Frontis portrait. 7 1/2 x 5 1/4. Hardbound in original blue cloth with gilt title on front cover and spine. Very light rubbing to front cover and spine, corners slightly bumped and 6 pin holes on front endpaper, else a tight, bright Near Fine Copy. Very scarce in this condition. Howes, USiana,B-674. Graff 374. Excellect contemporary account of life at Camp Halleck Nevada. Accounts of life in that post are rare and this book is not in Paher's Nevada Bibliography.
USD 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 233.5 | £UK 210.5 | JP¥ 30890] Book number: 1446
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CRAGEN, DOROTHY CLORA.  The Boys in the Sky Blue Pants.
Independence, CA:, Pioneer Publ. Co.,, 1975. First edition. End paper illus., illus., biblio., index. 11 1/4 x 8 3/4. Blue boards with gilt stamped spine title. Fine in a Fine illustrated dust jacket. Story of army and forts in Eastern Calif., Nevada and Utah. Not in Paher.
USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43.5 | £UK 39.25 | JP¥ 5737] Book number: 1447
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HUNT, AURORA.  The Army of the Pacific: Its Operations in California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Plains Region, Mexico, Etc. 1860-1866.
Glendale;, The Arthur H. Clark Company,Frontier Military Series 1., 1951. First edition, limited to 1023 copies. Frontis., 16 plates (listed), folding map. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine title, top edges are gilt, other edges untrimmed. Closed tear along 2" of the upper rear gutter, else Very Good to Near Fine with just slight shelf wear and light fading of gilt on the bottom of spine. History of the Union's Army of the Pacific, made up entirely of volunteers, and their role in the West during the Civil War. Paher, Nevada, An Annotated Bibliography, 923. Clark and Brunet 130.This has become exceedingly scarce.
USD 245.00 [Appr.: EURO 163.5 | £UK 147.25 | JP¥ 21623] Book number: 10410
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