What A Boy Saw In The Army. A Story Of Sight Seeing And Adventure In The War For The Union by Young, Jesse Bowman - 1894: 100 Original Drawings by Frank Beard

New York: Hunt & Eaton. Fair. 1894. Hardcover. Front cover has a spatter of water spots to the lower portion, rear cover has light damp staining to the upper portion. Rear blanks have slight damp staining to the lower margins. Binding is rather loose. Covers have slight wear to outer corners. .

Hunt & Eaton, 1894. Hardcover. Very Good. Beard, Frank. Front endpaper separating otherwise a tight copy. No marks to the written text. Bookstore stamp on front pastedown. Some rubbing to corners and spine ends. Large octavo in royal blue cloth, lettered in gilt and with black and blue decoration of a Union Army-uniformed boy astride a charging horse.

N.Y.: Hunt & Eaton, 1894. Book. Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. 399 pages, minor wear to cover, tight solid copy. Contains 100 original drawings by Frank Beard. Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, etc..

Hunt & Eaton, N. Y.. 1894. First Edition. From the Prefatory Note: "The lad was barely out of his teens when the struggle ended (Civil War) , in 1865, but his experience in camp, on the march, and in battle is ineffaceably stamped into his life and character". 100 original drawings by artist Frank Beard, who was himself a soldier in the Civil War. 399 pages. Handsome blue binding with gold stamped letters and picture of a young lad dressed in the Union uniform on a stallion. One of the nicest copies of this book I've seen. Tight, clean and in Near Fine original condition. .