Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War (Collector's Library of the Civil War)

368 pp. Blue boards with gilt title on spine and front board. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. "George Alfred Townsend (January 30, 1841 – April 15, 1914) was a noted war correspondent during the American Civil War, and a later novelist. Townsend wrote under the pen name "Gath", which was derived by adding an "H" to his initials, and inspired by the biblical passage II Samuel 1:20, "Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askalon.""