BILLINGS, John D.
Hardtack and Coffee or The Unwritten Story of Army Life.
First edition of John D. Billings' Hardtack and Coffee
Boston: George M. Smith & Co, 1887.
$2,500.00
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Item Number: RRB-132819
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First edition of Billings' classic Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with six color plates and over two hundred sketches by Charles W. Reed. In very good condition. First editions are rare.
Billings' Hardtack and Coffee includes chapters on enlisting in the Union army, life in tents and log huts, foraging, raw recruits, corps and corps badges, the wagon trains, the signal corps, and the engineer corps among others.
Hardtack and Coffee or The Unwritten Story of Army Life.
$2,500.00
In Stock
