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This sale features some of the rarest Ernest Hemingway items to come to market in recent years, along with rare and important newspapers, a closely-curated selection of works by African-American authors, and some of the finest early printed books to come to market in recent memory. Purchase Catalog
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Lot 503

[CIVIL WAR]. PARK, Robert Emory (1843-1909). Sketch of the ...

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[CIVIL WAR]. PARK, Robert Emory (1843-1909). Sketch of the Twelfth Alabama Infantry of Battle's Brigade, Rodes' Division, Early's Corps, of the Army of Northern Virginia. Richmond, VA: Wm. Ellis, Jones, Book and Job Printer, 1906. 8vo. Portrait of Park affixed to ffep. 106 pp. Contemporary full gray cloth (publisher's?) front board stamped in gilt, original wrappers bound-in (binding worn, soiled, hinges with cloth reinforcement, ffep. with marginal tear, gutter facing front wrapper starting, wrappers and text toned). Good. FIRST SEPARATELY PRINTED EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR'S WIFE ON THE FP.: "To Albert Clover, With warm regards of Mrs. Robert Emory Park Christmas, 1909." Inscribed after the author's death. "Much of this unit history consists of the author's own and many experiences, which appeared originally in serial form in the Southern Historical Society Papers?" (Nevins I).

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From the renowned personal collection of Dr. George D. Lacy.