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DISTANT BUGLES, DISTANT DRUMS: The Union Response to the Confederate Invasion of New Mexico.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, (2006). First edition - A look at an almost unknown episode in the Civil War from the Union perspective. Based on diaries, letters and contemporary newspaper accounts, this account describes the recruitment of 1,000 men in Colorado, their epic march to Glorieta Pass, New Mexico, and their triumph over 3,000 Confederate (mostly Texan) soldiers. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Notes, bibliography. xix, 278 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80128More details Price: $20.00 -
THE ROYAL GREEEN JACKETS (Osprey Men-at-Arms series)
Edition: First printing.
London: Osprey Publishing, (1977.). First edition - A study of this British regiment from its service in the French and Indian war in North America through the Napoleonic Wars, the Great War and World War II. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and reproductions of old engravings and drawings, plus a section of eight full color plates by MIchael Roffe. First edition of this early title in the "Men-at-Arms Series" a very high quality, accurate and attractively produced and well-illustrated series of slightly oversized, but slim, trade paperbacks, measuring 7 1/4 inches wide by 9 3/4 inches tall, bound in glossy illustrated white covers (heavy cardstock) and printed on good quality paper. Select bibliography, Notes. 40 pp. Uncommon in the first printing. ISBN: 0-85045249X.
Condition: Very near fine in stiff glossy pictorial wrappers (covers creamy rather than white.)
Book ID: 37730More details Price: $30.00 -
FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION: Men-at-Arms Series.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc. (1973.). First edition - Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and reproductions of old engravings and drawings, plus a section of eight full color plates by Michael Roffe. A title in the "Men-at-Arms Series" a very high quality, accurate and attractively produced and well-illustrated series of slightly oversized, but slim, trade paperbacks, measuring 7 1/4 inches wide by 9 3/4 inches tall, bound in glossy illustrated white covers (heavy cardstock) and printed on good quality paper. 40 pp. ISBN: 0-88254-1609.
Condition: Near fine in stiff glossy pictorial wrappers (prev owner's embossed seal).
Book ID: 38592More details Price: $16.00 -
GATE OF HELL: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863.
Edition: Hardcover.
Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, (1994) dj. Hardcover - An account of the combined Union army and naval assault on Charleston which included the Battle for Ft. Wagner and the use of black troops. Numerous maps and photographs. Appendix: The Roll of Battle. Notes, bibliography, index. xii, 312pp. ISBN: 9780872499850.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (prev owner's name, but otherwise appears unread, A tight copy).
Book ID: 58091More details Price: $20.00 -
PACIFIC ALAMO: The Battle for Wake Island.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very near fine in printed cream wrappers.
Book ID: 32946More details Price: $25.00