1889, My Story of the War.. by Mary Livermore, HB CIVIL WAR NURSE ILLUST, NF

Description: RARE DESIRABLE MEMOIR OF A NURSE IN THE CIVIL WAR, PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES AND CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS! The spine title reads, "My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Life and Work in Union Hospitals and in The Sanitary Service of The Rebellion", and the title page title partially reads (see listing photo for full title and subtitle), "My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army, and In Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps, and at the Front, During the War of the Rebellion..". Authored by Mary A. Livermore, "Superbly Illustrated with portraits and numerous full-page engravings on steel, and fine chromo-lithograph plates" (title page). Copyright 1887 by A.D. Worthington and Company (same publisher as this edition), the title page indicates a date of 1889. Online listings claim that the 1888 on the title page indicates a First Edition. Overall in SUPERB CONDITION (I hesitate to use "Near Fine" for a book published prior to 1900, but this one comes close). Clean textured red cloth boards with gilt spine and front cover titling. The spine shows only a faint amount of lightening of the red color of the cloth. Corners with light wear, edges with lighter wear. Light green flowered endpapers, not cracked, a previous owner name pencilled (looks like..) on first free endpaper, and a stamped number (price?) on endpaper behind front board. No further marks in 700 pages followed by an 8-page publisher advertising section. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED with 10 steel engravings (frontispiece and 9 within-text), and 8 chromolithograph color plates of flags of the two sides. All are protected by tissue - there was a bit of stickiness of the tissue on the color flag plates. Three are shown in listing photo, including the single plate of confederate flags. Of all the color plates, this confederate one shows a bit of staining to the center flag in that image (see listing photo). On the author and the book from another listing: "Mary A. Livermore was a notable woman in 19th century America-- renowned as a Civil War nurse, newspaper writer, administrator, suffragist and abolitionist. Livermore left her family in Chicago to volunteer with the relief work of the U.S. Sanitary Commission (her prominence in the national Commission led to an appointment as Superintendent of Chicago's Sanitary Commission). Livermore nursed wounded Union soldiers at the front and organized successful 'Sanitary Fair' fund-raisers-- her efforts were well-respected by Grant, Sherman and President Lincoln. 'My Story of the War' is Livermore's 'memoir' of her experiences in the war-- written 20 years after it ended. Livermore's book includes her first-hand reminiscences of Grant, Lincoln, "Mother" Bickerdyke and Dorothea Dix; news-items she had written about the Sanitary Commission; histories of individual soldiers; her war sketches of events she witnessed at the front (previously published in a Chicago newspaper edited by her husband); other stories of healers, patients and refugees. Livermore wrote of women's activities-- as war nurses, farm laborers and military contributors." B10

Price: 225 USD

Location: Burtonsville, Maryland

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