Horstmann's: The Enterprise of Military Equipage

Camp Hill, Pennsylvania / Manassas, Virginia: Bruce S. Bazelon / REF Typesetting & Publishing, Inc, 1997. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 11x8x0. Signed by author. 1997 self-published original, not 1998 reissue by Mowbray. Light spots along top edge, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. xiv, 199 pp. A history of 'the best documented of American military goods companies in the 19th century,' illustrated profusely with black-and-white photographs throughout. Founded in 1816, the firm is documented by surviving original ledgers, scrapbooks and photographs. Bibliography, family timeline, list of Horstmann's addresses, etc., follow text.