Flipper henry o (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Gently used ex-library copy with clean interior pages. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. This book is from a library and may include stamps, tape, and markings. Dust jacket condition is Good. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Condizione: Near Fine. dj. First edition, first printing. x, 54. 9.5" x 6.25" FIRST BLACK GRADUATE FROM WEST POINT Henry O. Flipper was the first Black graduate from West Point (1877), commissioned as a calvary second lieutenant who served with the Tenth Calvary as the first Black officer to command peacetime troops. Flipper spent the rest of his military career on the western frontier, fighting in the southwest Indian Wars against the Apache until his court-martialing in 1882. Accused of carelessness with military funds and charged with unbecoming conduct, Flipper was dismissed from the army but remained deeply integrated in his western home, translating within Mexican mining communities in El Paso and becoming the first American Black man to achieve prominence as a mining engineer. Flipper's account, found here in its first edition, follows his post-West Point life, serving as a landmark Black military text, as well as a glimpse into life on nineteenth century life in the Southwest. Small spots of rubbing to spine tips, still fine, in near fine dust jacket, with tiny spot of soiling to front panel and lightly rubbed extremities. Overall an extremely tight and clean copy. Publisher's full tan cloth, stamped in black, in printed dust jacket [$6]. Sepia author photograph frontispiece. (illustratore).…

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo, 76pp. Quarter black cloth spine (as issued) and printed blue wrappers. Wrappers have slight wear and bit of dust soiling, else a near fine copy, with the text fresh and clean. The first forty pages are devoted to a history of West Point from various reminiscences, followed by a complete register by year starting with 1802, listing all of the graduates of West Point to 1886, including Henry O. Flipper as a graduate member of the Class of 1877. Flipper was the first person of color to graduate from West Point. Scarce.…

East Saginaw, Mich. [Michigan]: Evening News Printing and Binding House, 1886. 8vo, blue printed wrappers with black cloth spine, 76 pages. Front wrap with soft vertical crease line; spine expertly reinforced with tissue; old, inexpert tape repair to bottom of t.p., at left of imprint; contents clean. Very good. bjcb 352251 First edition. The first forty pages are devoted to a history of West Point, followed by a complete register, by year, starting with 1802, of all of the graduates of West Point to 1886. Page 52 lists Henry Ossian Flipper (18561940) as a graduate of the Class of 1877. Flipper was the first person of color to graduate from West Point. "Flipper (1856-1940) was not the first black at West Point, but he was [its first graduate] the first to stay until he received an Army commission. He took part later in the Indian Wars of the Southwest, was accused of embezzlement in 1882, and though acquitted, was given a dishonorable discharge. Flipper became a prominent civil engineer and in the 1920's was an assistant to the Secretary of the Interior. In 1978, after his discharge was finally changed to honorable, he was reinterred with full military honors." (Blockson) This copy with the autograph ("J. Brisbane 1888") and his ownership stamps. Brisbane may have been a relative of Abbot H. Brisbane, a West Point graduate who is shown as having died in 1861 during the American Civil War.…