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Re: Frank Leslie's Illustrated-History Of The Civi

My great grandfather bought this book for his sister as a birthday present in 1897. My grandmother knew my great grandfather quite well and recounted this information to me.

As the story goes, my g-grandfather had fallen in love with this book the first time it was shown to him by a traveling salesman. From what I gathered, during this period it was quite common to buy books in this fashion. He knew full well that his sister hated anything that had to do with war but since the book was so beautifully done, not only would he receive the heart-felt gratitude from his sister for such a lovely gift, but he would almost certainly be the permanent and proud owner of the book!

The book remains in our family. Before I started doing any research about the book, our family thought that this book was extremely rare and priceless. Well, it is priceless to us but rare and valuable it is not.

The exact books that I have seen for sale run between $350 for near mint condition to $75 for ok condition. I spoke with a Civil War book collector at the Portland Antique and Collectable Show and was told that the value in this book is in cutting it up and selling it as`individual mounted prints.

For our family, this would be a crime especialy when you open to the first page and read in beautiful handwriting, " To Ida, Happy Birthday, Love Charlie. 1897

That little devil.

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