This brigadier general survived the Civil War, Spanish-American War, Indian uprisings, the Phillipine insurrection and World War One -- then died after tripping on a rug; when he wasn't fighting, he was writing, producing almost 60 novels about army life and frontier romance. ANS, 1p, heavy stock 4¼" X 3½"..... More
New York: The H.B. Claflin Company, 1905. Hardcover. Illustrations by George Gibbs and E.W. Deming. Small 8vo. Green cloth with color Medal of Honor plate tipped to front cover. 348pp. Frontispiece, 5 full-page plates. Very good. Tight, attractive first edition. More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1899. Hardcover. 12mo. Blue cloth with gilt and black lettering and decorations. 257pp, (10pp ads). Frontispiece. Very good. Quite mild edgewear; nonauthorial 1902 gift inscription on front flyleaf; cracked front inner hinge archivally strengthened, thus tight. Attractive, bright first edition of this fiction set in Texas..... More