Letters from the Frontiers. Written During a Period of Thirty Years' Service in the Army of the United States

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Original stamped boards with beveled edges and gilt imprint are faded and soiled. Corners are rubbed and bumped and the spine ends are missing. Binding tight. Soil on edges. Brown endpapers. Light soil on some pages, one chipped page. Pages [i]-x, 11-539. McCall describes his Army life in the Black Hawk War, at frontier forts across the Southeast, and in the Mexican War. "A classic of its period." --Graff 2574. Howes M 30. Sabin 42970. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 539 pp . (Inventory #: 010026BT)