Journals of the Late Brevet Major Philip Norbourne Barbour Captain in the 3rd Regiment, United States Infantry
signed
1936 · New York
by Barbour, Major Philip Norbourne
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1936. Limited edition copy. Very good+ in 1/4 tan and blue ribbed cloth covered boards with a paper label on the spine and with a blind embossed seal on the front board. The cloth at the lower tips of the boards is rubbed through. Without a dust jacket. Edited and with a forward by Rhonda van Bibber Tanner Doubleday. A limited edition copy as noted on the second free end paper being copy number 547 of only 1,000 signed and numbered copies produced. It is also signed by the editor. 187 pages of text followed by notes on the ancestry of Major Philip Norbourne Barbour. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author a reproduction of a daguerreotype of Martha Barbour and a photograph of the momument erected to the Major's memory by the state of Kentucky. The full title reads: Journals of the Late Brevet Major Philip Norbourne Barbour Captain in the 3rd Regiment, United States Infantry and his wife Martha Isabella Hopkins Barbour Written During the War with Mexico -1846. Major Barbour was killed in action in Montery on Sept. 21, 1846. His journals and letters written while in Mexico during the war given a first person account of the military actions and personalities witnessed and recorded by Barbour. Very uncommon. (Inventory #: TB17911)