THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES, SONGS, SERVICES, AND SPEECHES OF PRIVATE MILES O'REILLY. (47TH REGIMENT, NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS)
by (HALPINE, CHARLES G.)
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Moderate Cover and Corner Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Carleton, Publisher, 1864. Spine ends frayed. Corners worn. Old water stain rear cover. Front free endpaper and frontispiece are missing, title-page illustration glued to front pastedown. Old tissue-guard remains. A clean copy internally, few random areas of minor foxing. IIllustrated by Mullin with comic illustrations, some full-page and headpieces. Miles O'Reilly was the nom de plume of Charles G. Halpine (1829-1868), an Irish journalist and author who immigrated to the US. He enlisted in the 69th New York Infantry at the onset of the Civil War. He wrote satirical articles on the Civil War under his pseudonym. 237pp. + adverts.. First Edition. Green Embossed Cloth. Moderate Cover and Corner Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013910
- Title
- THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES, SONGS, SERVICES, AND SPEECHES OF PRIVATE MILES O'REILLY. (47TH REGIMENT, NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS)
- Author
- (HALPINE, CHARLES G.)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Moderate Cover and Corner Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Carleton, Publisher
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1864
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Civil War, Satire
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...