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First edition of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe's Home Letters of General Sherman; From the Library of P. Tecumseh Sherman
HOWE, Mark Antony De Wolfe. [William Tecumseh Sherman].
Home Letters of General Sherman.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer's work on Civil War Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman; from W. T. Sherman's library. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece. Philemon Tecumseh Sherman's bookplate adhered to the front pastedown. In very good condition. This book was inherited by General Sherman's son P. T. Sherman, who transferred the library to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch, before he died. Eleanor was the granddaughter of General Sherman through his eldest daughter, Maria "Minnie" Ewing Sherman Fitch. Until now, the book was held at the family estate in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145723
