Herr, John K., Major General, and Wallace Edward S., THE STORY OF THE U.S. CAVALRY 1775-1942. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953. 

1^st Ed. (Stated) blue cloth hardcover w/yellow ink titling to spine, 8vo (9.125x6.75”), very good+/good, 275pp.   Book would be fine if not for two U.S. Postal stamps applied to title page for presumed enhancement, one a 3 cent Patton Stamp and the other a 3 cent Centennial of Engineering stamp, dust jacket is worn, chipped, and torn along the entire external perimeter, being heaviest at the head of spine and along top edge of front board, now in protective covering.  

Overall, a very good example of this riveting work.  Copiously illustrated with b/w plates and cuts of the U.S. Cavalry across its history.  John Herr, the main author, was the last Chief of Cavalry. From its modest beginnings in the Revolutionary War, through its abolition, so far as the horse was concerned, in 1942, to its mechanized operations in the Korean War.  

A landmark book of the genre. Quite the distinctive book indeed – and yet another wonderful example of Captured Tyme!