453
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(MILITARY.) LEE, REV. WILLIAM MACK LEE.
History of the Life of Rev.
Wm. Mack Lee, Body Servant of General Robert E. Lee.
Illustrations. 28 pages. 8vo,
original pictorial wrappers, darkened at the edges; small triangular chip to rear cover; some
light general soil. (WGC)
Norfolk: 1918
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION
,
SCARCE
.
Autobiographical account of the life of Robert E. Lee’s body servant
and cook throughout the Civil War. By his own account, he was with Lee at first and second
Bull Run, first and second Manassas, and “was there at the fire of the last gun for the salute of
the surrender on Sunday, April 9, 9 o’clock A.M. at Appomattox.”
454
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(MILITARY—WORLD WAR I.) UPLIFT.
True Sons of Freedom. Colored
Men, the First Americans Who Planted Our Flag on the Firing Line.
Chromolithograph, “uplift” poster, 20 x 15 inches; some foxing and mottling to the paper,
more visible on the reverse. (WGC)
Chicago: Gustrine, 1918
[800/1,200]
455
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NO LOT.
456
453
454
456
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(MI L ITARY—HARLEM. )
“HELL FIGHTERS” EUROPE, JAMES
REESE
Good Night Angeline.
Four
pages, folio sheet music, with the Harlem
Hell fighters band, led by the legendary
James Reese Europe on the front cover;
slight wear with a few short closed tears
to the outer edge.
New York: A. Witmark & Sons, 1919
[400/600]