Mary Livermore was more than just a nurse for the Union Army. She was an educator, a writer and suffragette. When named co-director of the Chicago branch of the United States Sanitary Commission, Livermore not only tended the wounded, she raised money and supplies. She edited their monthly bulletins, of its Aid Societies.
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Mary Livermore was more than just a nurse for the Union Army. She was an educator, a writer and suffragette. When named co-director of the Chicago branch of the United States Sanitary Commission, Livermore not only tended the wounded, she raised money and supplies. She edited their monthly bulletins, of its Aid Societies.
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Add this copy of My Story of the War: a Woman's Narrative to cart. $30.00, fair condition, Sold by RPL Library Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rochester, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1888 by A. D. Worthington and Company.
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Fair. No Jacket. Size: 6" x 9"; FAIR/ NO DUST JACKET. 700 pp. Text is clean and unmarked. Illustrated with 5 portraits and 8 figures in b/w. Brown leather boards with black compartment at spine lettered in gilt. Boards rubbed and scuffed, edges rubbed, corners worn to boards, spine top and tail rubbed. Joints cracked completely through, boards held in place by the binding tapes and pastedowns. Textblock intact and stable.
Add this copy of My Story of the War: a Woman's Narrative to cart. $107.00, very good condition, Sold by Rose's Books rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harwich Port, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1889 by A. D. Worthington & Co..
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Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hartford, CT, A. D. Worthington & Co., 1889. Reprint. 8vo. Rebound in half leather, with beautiful hand-tooled leather on spine and corners, over attractive marbled boards with gilt lettering and decorations embossed on spine, frontispiece features a portrait of the author and a facsimile of her autograph, lavishly illustrated in color and black and white, 700 pp. Mary Livermore's personal experiences as a nurse in the Union Army and in relief work at home, in hospitals, camps and at the Front, during the four years of the American Civil War. A gift-quality book. A few indentations in the leather, a few pages in the middle of the book have small creases at corners; otherwise this book would be graded fine. Very good.
