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Editore: Acme Printing Company, 1921 edition, 1921
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- Prima edizione
Da: KULTURAs books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.KULTURAs books
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EUR 1128,93
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. Original black leatherette book, gilt title and insignia of a buffalo imprinted on front along with an imprinted decorative border. First edition of a limited run, printed for family and friends in 1921. Boards and interior pages clean and bright, firm binding, illustrations vivi…d. The very tips boards are slightly bent. Color frontispiece of unit insignia, a buffalo, tipped in. Dedication to Col. Edwin B. Winans, who also gets a frontispiece photo, followed by a foreword by Gen. John J. Pershing, along with a full-page photo. A detailed history of the Tenth Cavalry Unit, one of two regiments "of colored men" formed by an act of Congress in 1866 in recognition of the role of "the colored soldier" in the Civil War. (The Ninth Cavalry was the other. ) "In the years that followed" its formation, the book says, the Tenth "created for itself a record which cedes primacy to none. " b&w photos and map illustrations throughout. An exemplary copy of this scarce item. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 145 pages.