Curtis, Newton Martin. From Bull Run to Chancellorsville. First Edition.

Description: From Bull Run to Chancellorsville. The Story of the Sixteenth New York Infantry together with Personal Reminiscences by Newton Martin Curtis, Brevit Major-General, U.S. Vols. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1906. 384 pps. Several illustrations, including frontispiece of author's portrait with his signature on the tissue-guard. Three other portraits of generals with tissue-guards. Very good plus book in very good dust jacket. First edition. Dark navy blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and a red cross on the front board panel; gilt lettering on spine. Gilt on upper page edges. Boards are clean but with a little red leeching from the red cross on the front panel. Horizontal creasing across uppermost edge at head of board spine; crimps on edge and corners at tail of board spine, light scuffs on both. Foxing on external and lower side page edges. Fore-edge corners are slightly curled in. Only very slight foxing on end-papers, else internally clean and with snug text block. Gray-green paper dust jacket with navy lettering on front panel and spine. Dust jacket is sunned, more so on spine and upper edge of front panel. Spine also has several stains. Lower edges of inside front and back flaps have a a few small stains. Front and back panels have small fox-like stains. Lower edge of front jacket panel has loss of 7/8" by up to 1/2" near the center, and with adjacent 1/2" closed vertical tear and two diagonal creases of 2 1/2" and 1 1/2" to the lower edge; the shorter crease has an adjacent closed 1/4" vertical tear. Additional 1/2" closed vertical tear along the lower edge toward the fore-edge corner. Foot of jacket spine is bumped, creating several creases and closed vertical tears of 5/8" and 3/8" and adjacent loss from chips of up to 1/4" on the center of edge and front corner. Upper edge at head of spine has loss on the back corner of 1/4" and loss of 1/8" or less on the front corner and across width. Lower back fore-edge corner has loss of 1/4" and two adjacent closed vertical tears of 1/4". Lower front fore-edge corner also has 1/4" loss; upper front fore-edge corner has a closed and open 1/2" tear along the fold. All inside flap corners have uniform clips. No price is showing. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition descriptions. Additional photos are available at your request.

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