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Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: Containing The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields
by Edmonds. S. Emma E
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hartford, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago: W.S. Williams & Co.; Jones Bros. & Co.; J.A. Stoddard & Co., 1865. While many disguised women served during the American Civil War, this is one of the few well-documented stories. A Canadian, Emma Edmonds eventually became the only woman member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Her memoir was originally published in 1864; this is a Good only copy of the reprint, issued under a different title by a different publisher, which became a best-seller of the time. Green cloth binding, decoratively stamped, with gilt lettering on the spine. Clean text; 384 pages. There are nine "embellishments," including a frontis portrait of the author. This copy is in rather delicate condition, with bumping, fraying, and with both gutters cracked. Please note the condition issues. Quercus offers this as a Binding Copy, in need of some repair or restoration. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint. Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Ms. Edmonds writes about the numerous battles she participated in, including Bull Run, Williamsburg, Antietam and Fredericksburg. Note: DSI, the publisher of this e-book, is granting readers the right to print excerpts of this book as well as the right to lend/give this e-book to other Glassbook Plus Reader users. Printing: Users can print up to 100 e-book pages every seven days. Students and researchers will find this feature especially useful. To print, click on the menu button in the Glassbook Reader and select the print option. Lending/Giving: We currently have two ways to lend or give a book: you can beam it to a computer if both have infrared ports, or you can send it to a computer on your network. To lend a book to someone else, go to the Library, click a book. Click the Menu button and then click Lend/Give to display the Lend/Give dialog box. Choose a loan period or click Give. To send the book over an infrared connection, click Beam. To send the book to a computer on the network, enter the computer name in the Send To box and click Send. You can either lend the book or give it away. Like a paper book, there is only ever one working copy. Once the lending period expires, you get your rights back and you can re-read the book or lend it again. Of course, if you give it away, it's gone for good (unless the recipient gives it back).
Reviews
On Oct 27 2020, a reader said:
I purchased this book at the Printers Row Litfest in 2019. This book, which was published in 1865, the last year of the Civil War, concerns a woman from Canada who fled to the U.S. to escape an arranged marriage and then enlisted in the Union Army, dressed as a man and using a male name as an alias. She got away with her deception and she actually took part in the fighting, as well as acting as an Army nurse (despite the fact that she had no training of any kind) and she also acted as a spy, dyeing her skin to look like an African American. I have read many books on the Civil War, including first person accounts, but I have never read another one like this. I recommend the book to anyone who likes to read about the Civil War.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002792
- Title
- Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: Containing The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields
- Author
- Edmonds. S. Emma E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint. Edition
- Publisher
- W.S. Williams & Co.; Jones Bros. & Co.; J.A. Stoddard & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago
- Date Published
- 1865
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- American Civil War;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
We accept checks and money orders in US Dollars. Credit card orders are accepted through Biblio. California residents add appropriate sales tax. Items are returnable for any reason within ten days of receipt (please email or call first before returning item).
About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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