Dear Friend Anna: The Civil War Letters of a Common Soldier From Maine [Abial Hall Edwards]

Book Description

Orono, ME : University of Maine Press, 1992. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Ownership signature at front pastedown, inscribed by author at ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ bright and clean. Blue cloth boards, blue ink lettering, frontispiece. Small 8vo. 161pp plus np plates. Illus. (b/w plates). Index. Inscribed by author to J Sadler. "Abial Edwards was the third son of a wheelwright and carriage maker and himself a textile worker in Lewiston, Maine, when the Civil War began. He enlisted in September 1861 [and discharged in 1863, reenlisted, serving] until June 1866." (from flap) From the library of noted architect and writer on architecture, J. Sadler. Sadler was prone to marginalia and laying in clippings and ephemera related to a given book’s subject. The presence of marginal notes or marks will be noted above and are absent if not so noted.

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