ADVENTURES OF AN ENGLISH SOLDIER [THE MEXICAN WAR BY AN ENGLISH SOLDIER COMPRISING INCIDENTS AND ADVENTURES IN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY]

New York: W. A. Townsend & Company, 1860. Reprint Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in the publisher's embossed brown cloth binding with titling in gilt to the spine; xii, 288 pages; followed by 19 pages of ads for the wildly popular James Fenimore Cooper; with the top of the front endpaperr and the first blank leaf torn out; the top corner of the rear endpaper is torn out as well.~~First published as "Autobiography of an English Soldier" in 1853; Howes notes that the collation in this edition is the same; also that Ballentine "served at Ft. Pickens, Florida, and with Scott from Vera Cruz to~Mexico City."~~ (Howes B-77). Very Good binding.