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STARS & STRIPES TRIUMPHANT.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 69543More details Price: $40.00 -
CORNERSTONES OF CONFEDERATE COLLECTING.
Edition: Third limited edition, of 500 numbered copies, of which 100 were signed by the author.
Charlottesville, VA: The University of Virginia Press for the Bibliographical Society of University of Virginia, (1982) 1953. Hardcover - Although this copy retains the title page of the second revised edition of 1953, it was actually published in Wendell, North Carolina in 1982. Includes a foreword by Clifford Dowdey, informative text and a checklist of the cornerstones followed by facsimiles of title pages. #5 out of 100 copies SIGNED and bound by hand, 35 pp plus 20 pp of facsimile title pages and colophon.
Condition: Very near fine in wheat-colored cloth with pasted on title label on the spine, small illustration of a Confederate soldier on the front cover.
Book ID: 35161More details Price: $50.00 -
A SEPARATE COUNTRY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in New Orleans in the years following the Civil War, based on the true love story of Confederate General John Bell Hood and his wife, Anna Marie. Author's note. 424 pp. ISBN: 9780446581646.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 58161More details Price: $16.50 -
THE LOUISIANA NATIVE GUARDS: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 33118More details Price: $25.00 -
SOUTH WIND COME
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Houston, TX:' Arte Publico Press, 1998. First edition - A sequel to the author's award-winning 'Call No Man Master,' this weaves together real historical figures like Sam Houston, US Grant and Robert E. Lee with fiction. Continues the story of revolutionary Carmen Rangel and introduces her granddaughter, Teresa Sestos y Abrantes in a story set durign a volatile lime in Texan and Mexican history, recreating both the American Civil War and Mexico's continuing struggle for democracy. 286 pp. ISBN: 1-55885231X.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 70504More details Price: $15.00 -
AND STILL PEACE DID NOT COME: A Memoir of Reconciliation.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 83331More details Price: $18.50 -
THE SMILING REBEL.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1955. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel based on the life of Belle Boyd, the Civil War spy. SIGNED by the author with the words "Best wishes.
Condition: Near fine in gray cloth with red lettering on the spine. Inscription. Flaps and back cover of dj tipped into rear of book.
Book ID: 13800More details Price: $25.00 -
INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY, VOLUME LXXXV, Number 2, June 1989.
Edition: First appearance in print of these works.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 1989. First edition - Articles on the Presidential campaign on 1936, General Lew Wallace and the battle of Cincinnati in 1962 and a Hoosier country doctor's medical ledger, 1911-1917. Book reviews.
Condition: Fine in stiff red wrappers.
Book ID: 19102More details Price: $10.00 -
INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY, VOLUME LXXXVII, Number 3, September 1991.
Edition: First appearance in print of these works.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 1991. First edition - Includes an article on the distribution of Indiana's ethnic and racial minorities in 1850.
Condition: Fine in stiff red wrappers.
Book ID: 21423More details Price: $10.00 -
'Luke Decker and Slavery' in INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY, VOLUME LXXXV, Number 1, March 1989.
Edition: First appearance in print of these works.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 1989. First edition - Also 'Governor James P. Goodrich and Russia' by Benjamin Rhodes and 'Civil War Letters of Daniel Wooten, the Metamorphosis of a Quaker Soldier' by Jacquelyn S. Nelson. Book reviews. 100 pages.
Condition: Near fine in stiff red wrappers.
Book ID: 19101More details Price: $12.00 -
HARRIET MARTINEAU AND AMERICA: Selected letters from the Reinhard S. Speck Collection.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1995. First edition - Keepsake No. 41. Focuses on Martineau's comments on America, from the time of her visit in 1834-36 - a visit which made her a strong proponent of immediate abolition of slavery - through and beyond the Civil War. Includes a foreword by Peter Hanff, edited and with an introduction and notes by R. A Burchell, a brief biography of Martineau and a chronology. Although Martineau in an introductory note to her autobiography explained why she wanted all of her letters destroyed and not published, fortunately not all of her correspondents followed this request. Frontispiece portrait. 119 pp.
Condition: Fine in gray-blue wrappers (letter from the Bancroft laid-in.)
Book ID: 34069More details Price: $25.00 -
SONG YET SUNG.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Riverhead Books, (2008.). First edition - His third book, an historical novel of slavery set in the years just before the Civil War and inspired by the life of Harriet Tubman - a story of "slaves and slave-catchers, of facing the tyranny of the past and dreams of the future." In 2013, McBride won the National BookAward. 353 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (as new).
Book ID: 58786More details Price: $30.00 -
I SHALL BE NEAR TO YOU.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, about a strong-willed woman who disguises herself as a man in order to fight beside her husband, Inspired by more than 250 documented accounts of the women who fought in the Civil War while disguised as men, but especially by the letters of the real Rosetta - Sarah Rosetta Wakeman. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 304 pp. ISBN: 978-0804137720.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86995More details Price: $30.00 -
GHOST RIDERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which juxtaposes the legends of the Civil War with modern day life in theAppalachian Mountains. ISBN: 0-525-947183.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72869More details Price: $17.50 -
FROM PLANTATION TO GHETTO: An Interpretive History of American Negroes.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Hill & Wang, 1968. Hardcover - Index, 280 pages.
Condition: Some highlighting and notations, bookstore stamp, otherwise very good conditon in brown cloth covers.
Book ID: 16475More details Price: $12.50 -
TYPEE: A Peep at Polynesian Life During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas
Edition: First thus.
West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, 1962. Hardcover first edition - An attractive edition of this classic novel, based upon Melville's own experiences in 1842, when he and a companion jumped ship in the Marquesas. Designed by Bradbury Thompson, this limited edition features illustrations reproduced from the Iconographic Encyclopedia of Science, Literature, and Art, 1846. 324 pp plus final illustrations and colophon. Bound in quarter cowhide leather with the title stamped in gold over deorated paper boards. Slipcase reproduces the illustrations on the endpapers.
Condition: Fine in very good slipcase (some toning to the slipcase) Signed presentation slip tipped onto front endpaper.
Book ID: 67827More details Price: $35.00 -
THE VACANT CHAIR: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 29315More details Price: $18.00 -
ISLAND OF A THOUSAND MIRRORS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's award-winning first novel, set in Sri Lanka where she was born, during the civil war which tore that country apart. The story of two families - one Sinhala and one Tamil - and of the hopes and fears of a young woman in each of those families. Winner of the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize for the Asian Region and longlisted for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 242 pp. ISBN: 978-1250043931.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (toning to bottom edge of textblock)
Book ID: 82382More details Price: $50.00 -
THE OLD MAN: John Brown at Harper's Ferry.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1973.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography in which "Nelson explodes the conventional dismissal of the subject as a fanatic, and presents him as America's greatest revolutionary, the organizer of a brilliant coup which eventually succeeded in beginning to overthrow and dismember proslavery control of the U.S. government." Illustrated with maps, reproductions of vintage woodcuts and photographs. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0010519.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 55634More details Price: $21.50 -
COAL BLACK HORSE.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC Algonquin Books 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - When Robey Childs's mother has a premonition about her husband, a soldier fighting in the Civil War, she sends her only child, age fourteen to find his father on the battlefield and bring him home. But not far from home, his horse becomes hesitant and he realizes the magnitude of his task. It takes the gift of a powerful and noble coal black horse to show him how to undertake the most important journey of his life. 218 pp. ISBN: 1565125215.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (previous owners name)
Book ID: 60758More details Price: $16.50 -
THE YANKEE MIDDY or, The Adventures of a Naval Officer: A Story of the Great Rebellion.
Edition: Later printing.
Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, (ca 1893, c 1865). Hardcover - The fourth volume of the Army and Navy series, set during the Civil War, and originally published in 1865. This traces the adventures of Jack Somers from the Naval Academy to his promotion to the rank of ensign. Frontispiece and illustrated title page. 333 pp. plus 4 pp of publisher's ads.
Condition: Very good in illustrated dark teal boards with gilt lettering (gift inscription)
Book ID: 83965More details Price: $17.50 -
BRAVE OLD SALT or, Life on the Quarter Deck: A Story of the Great Rebellion.
Edition: Vintage reprint.
New York: Hurst and Company, (ca 1910, c 1866). Hardcover - The sixth and final volume of the Army and Navy series, set during the Civil War, and originally published in 1866. Frontispiece portrait of Taylor. 301 pp. plus 2 pp of publisher's ads.
Condition: Very good in illustrated yellow cloth boards with black lettering,orange panel, gilt lettering on the spine Gift inscription dated 1911. A very attractive copy.
Book ID: 63112More details Price: $15.00 -
YOUNG LIEUTENANT or, The Adventures of an Army Officer: A Story of the Great Rebellion.
Edition: Vintage reprint.
New York: Hurst and Company, (ca 1910, c 1865). Hardcover - The third volume of the Army and Navy series, set during the Civil War, and originally published in 1866. Frontispiece portrait of Taylor. 301 pp. plus 2 pp of publisher's ads.
Condition: Good overall in illustrated pale green boards with dark green and orange lettering and illustration (prev owner's name in pencil, tidemark to upper corner of front endpaper)
Book ID: 67374More details Price: $12.50 -
AMERICAN HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE STOCK OF EDWARD EBERSTADT & SONS, April 9, 1968. Sale Number 2682.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Auction catalogue listing 222 lots. Includes materials related to the California and Arizona missions, to the Civil War, to the Tennessee frontier settlements, Ross settlement in Texas, the Lewis and Clark expedition and more. Many black and white illustrations of items included in the auction. Index. 81 pp plus information on rates, etc. Prices realized laid in.
Condition: Fine in green cover with gilt lettering on front and spine, chipping to original glassine dust jacket.
Book ID: 32225More details Price: $25.00 -
SOLDIER'S HEART: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A short novel for older children. Based on a true story, this tells what the Civil War was like, battle by battle, for boys and young men like Charley - who was 15 and lied about his age in order to enlist. At the end of the Battle of Gettysburg only 47 out of the 1000 men in the 1st Minnesota were left standing. Author's note. Brief bibliography. 106 pages. ISBN: 0-385-324987.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72714More details Price: $16.50 -
SOLDIER'S HEART: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1998) dj. Hardcover - A short novel for older children. Based on a true story, this tells what the Civil War was like, battle by battle, for boys and young men like Charley - who was 15 and lied about his age in order to enlist. At the end of the Battle of Gettysburg only 47 out of the 1000 men in the 1st Minnesota were left standing. Author's note. Brief bibliography. 106 pages. ISBN: 0-385-324987.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 20862More details Price: $13.50 -
THE NANCIES.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88968More details Price: $15.00 -
PINK AND SAY.
Edition: The Kindness edition.
New York: Philomel Books, n d (c 1994.) dj. Hardcover - Later printing of this classic story. "Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops. Based on a true story about the author's great-great-grandfather." Illustrated throughout in full color, large format unpaginated. Rear endpapers have discussion questions. ISBN: 978-0399226717.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82783More details Price: $15.00 -
PINK Y SAY.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Lectorum, (1997.). Hardcover - Spanish translation of this book. "Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops. Based on a true story about the author's great-great-grandfather." LIBRO EN ESPANOL. Illustrated throughout in full color, large format unpaginated. ISBN: 1880507307.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated boards (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 50580More details Price: $12.50 -
THE KILLER ANGELS.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Random House, (1993) dj. Hardcover - 'A Novel About the Four Days of Gettysburg' - that is, the day leading up to the battle and the three days of the bloody battle itself - July 1-3, 1863. Originally published in 1974, this won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize, and also became a modern classic - considered one of the best novels ever written about the Civil War. Basis for the movie 'Gettysburg.' Maps and situation plans throughout the book. Foreword and an afterword. xix, 374 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-679-425411.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 77436More details Price: $18.00