1894 My Story of the War by Mary A. Livermore, w/ Color Illustrations

Description: 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, with Anecdotes, Pathetic Incidents, and Thrilling Reminisces Portraying the Lights and Shadows of Hospital Life and the Sanitary Service of the War by Mary A. Livermore, A.D. Worthington and Company, Hartford, Conn., 1894, 700pp, leather, 6 x 9", 8vo Fair condition. Wear to front and rear boards; redrot. Tips are bumped with exposed boards and edges are scuffed. Spine shows significant chipping and cracking; mostly legible. Appears that tape may have been used in an attempt at restoration. Floral pattern on front and rear pastedowns and flyleafs. Marginalia on front flyleaf. Frontispiece of the author. Title page has come loose from the binding. Toning throughout textblock. Speckling on fore edges. Binding is fragile. Good candidate for restoration. Please see photos. Mary Livermore (December 19, 1820 - May 23, 1905) was an American journalist, abolitionist, and advocate of women's rights. When the American Civil War broke out, Livermore became connected with the United States Sanitary Commission headquarters at Chicago and performed a vast amount of labor of all kinds by organizing auxiliary societies, visiting hospitals and military posts, contributing to the press, answering correspondence, and other things incident to the work done by that institution. When the war was over, she instituted a pro-women's suffrage paper called the Agitator, which was afterwards merged in the Woman's Journal. The edition in this listing includes numerous illustrations, including full-color illustrations of the states' battle flags. FORN-MSB-0224-TUB0005-JC117

Price: 125 USD

Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

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