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Battle sketches / by Ambrose Bierce ; with eight engravings on wood by Thomas Derrick.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC85 B4778 930b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
- United States.
- History.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 3 preliminary leaves, 88 pages, 1 leaf : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : First Edition Club, 1930.
- Contents:
- On a mountain
- What I saw of Shiloh
- A little of Chickamauga
- The crime at Picketts' Mill
- What occurred at Franklin
- Four days in Dixie.
- Notes:
- Colophon: "Of this, the eighteenth book of the First Edition Club, three hundred & fifty copies have been printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, Saint Aldates, Oxford, in cloister type on Batchelor's hand-made paper. It has been designed and arranged in every detail by Bernard H. Newdigate as a volume in the series commissioned by the First Edition Club to be printed by eminent English typographers."
- Title vignette; head pieces.
- Extracts from the author's Bits of autobiography.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has unopened leaves.
- OCLC:
- 3161065
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