RARE 1889 Civil War in Song & Story Frank Moore - UNION OFFICER C.C. HOLMES COPY For Sale

✨ AN INCREDIBLE, ONE-OF-A-KIND PIECE OF CIVIL WAR HISTORY! ✨Up for immediate sale is a deeply fascinating, uniquely personalized 1889 edition of The Civil War in Song and Story (1860-1865), collected by Frank Moore and published by P. F. Collier.While standard copies of this anthology appear from time to time, this specific volume is an irreplaceable historical artifact featuring direct provenance to a prominent Union commander and rare physical evidence of its journey through time!🎖️ UNMATCHED HISTORICAL PROVENANCE: THE C.C. HOLMES COPYThe front endpaper and title page bear the distinct library stamp of Lieutenant Colonel Christopher C. Holmes (1817–1904) of Milton and Boston, Massachusetts. Lt. Col. Holmes was the esteemed commander of the 1st Corps of Cadets (Boston Cadets) during the Civil War, famously tasked by Governor Andrew with garrisoning Fort Warren in Boston Harbor to guard high-profile Confederate prisoners of war!🔎 UNIQUE CHARACTER & HISTORICAL MARKINGS INSIDE:The Publisher's Review Slip: Carefully slotted via a period incision at the bottom of page 141 is an original, printed publisher’s slip that reads: "In sending these complimentary copies, may we mention". This proves this exact book was a specially advanced review or complimentary copy gifted directly to Lt. Col. Holmes by P. F. Collier!Handwritten Marks and “Lincoln" Marginalia: On the page documenting a personal encounter with Abraham Lincoln, a previous reader has elegantly written "Lincoln" sideways in late-19th-century cursive ink—a beautiful example of period text interaction.A Multi-Generational Ephemera Bonus: Tucked neatly into the pages is a mid-20th-century Reader's Digest mail-in subscriber slip, showing how this beloved volume was handled, read, and used as a family keepsake across the decades.📖 CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS:The interior text blocks remain crisp, remarkably clean, and entirely legible. It is packed with raw, immediate, contemporary poetry, soldiers' letters, and frontline anecdotes—including the heroic final moments of Lieut. Greble at Great Bethel (the first regular U.S. Army officer killed in the war) and scathing period political parodies mocking James Buchanan.⚠️ CONDITION REPORT (Please Read & See Photos):This book has been well-loved and lived a full historical life!Exterior: The purple-brown embossed cloth cover shows fading. The spine has heavy wear, with chipping and small portions of cloth missing at the top and bottom hinges.Interior: The front endpaper, the main title page and a small number of interior pages are severely torn with sections of paper missing (affecting some text on the title page). The remaining 500+ pages of text, illustrations, and poems are firmly attached, generally clean, and in remarkably good reading condition.This is a dream find for any Civil War historian, Boston military collector, or lover of unique antiquarian books. Don't miss the chance to own a book that was actually gifted to and read by a Union officer who lived through the history inside it!