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LIVERMORE, Mary A. My Story of the War. A Woman’s Narrative of Four Years’ Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps, and at the Front, during the War of the Rebellion. Hartford, Conn.: A.D. Worthington and Company, 1889.
First Edition. Early Later Printing. 8vo. 23 cm tall. 700 pages. Engraved frontispiece authorial portrait, 9 full-page engraved plates, and 8 full-page color lithographed plates. Publisher’s full maroon cloth, gilt facsimile signature to front board, gilt lettering and pictorial decoration to spine; floral patterned endpapers. Copyright 1887. Nevins II, 130. Eicher, 637. Dornbusch IV, 1834. Very Good-. No previous owner markings or bookplates. Complete with all plates and tissue guards. Light foxing. Front hinge just starting, with mild splitting to the endpaper along the hinge; binding remains sound. Spine cloth just starting to lift from text block. Moderate wear to spine ends, with small tear to head of spine. Moderate wear to board corners, with observable board exposure. Offered together with a 16-page A.D. Worthington publisher’s subscription circular (copyright 1889), a contemporary prospectus advertising the same edition of My Story of the War as the present 1889-dated copy.
- Mary Livermore’s Civil War memoir of service with the U.S. Sanitary Commission, first published by A.D. Worthington in 1888 and handsomely produced with steel-engraved portraits and chromolithograph flag plates.
- A firsthand account of Union relief work by a future suffrage leader who organized Chicago’s 1863 Northwestern Sanitary Fair.
- Offered with a contemporary publisher’s prospectus that is scarcely traceable in commerce.
- Compelling for collectors of women’s Civil War history and illustrated Worthington imprints.
