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[CIVIL WAR]. Trio of Non-Fiction First or Signed Editions, ...

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[CIVIL WAR]. Trio of Non-Fiction First or Signed Editions, including: DE LEON, T. C. Four Years in Rebel Capitals... Mobile, AL: The Gossip Printing Company, 1892. 8vo. Illustrated. 376 pp. Publisher's full red cloth, front board stamped in gilt and black, spine stamped in gilt, floral endleaves (spine toned and edgeworn, light rubbing, soiling to boards, text a bit toned, occasionally foxed, title-page slightly loose, gutter after title-page starting). Very good. AUTHOR'S AUTOGRAPH EDITION, SIGNED BY HIM ON THE FRONTISPIECE. And: ALLAN, Elizabeth Preston. The Life and Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. 8vo. Illustrated. 378 pp. Publisher's full blue cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt (light rubbing to binding). Near fine. FIRST EDITION OF THIS CIVIL WAR MEMOIR FROM A WOMAN'S PERSPECTIVE. And: HOUGHTON, W. R. and HOUGHTON, M. B. Two Boys in the Civil War and After. Montgomery, AL: The Paragon Press, 1912. Illustrated. 242 pp. Publisher's full blue cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt (spine a bit toned, rubbed, endleaves and several text pages foxed). Near fine. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY CO-AUTHOR M. B. HOUGHTON ON THE FFEP. From the renowned personal collection of Dr. George D. Lacy. 

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