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  • THE KILLER ANGELS. by Shaara, Michael.
    Shaara, Michael.
    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: 77436
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  • MEMOIRS OF GENERAL W.T. SHERMAN. by Sherman, William Tecumseh.
    Sherman, William Tecumseh.
    MEMOIRS OF GENERAL W.T. SHERMAN.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York: Library of America, (1990) dj. Hardcover - Memoir of one of the most controversial generals of the American Civil War. " 'War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it,' he wrote in fury to the Confederate mayor of Atlanta, and his memoir is filled with dozens of such wartime exchanges. With the propulsive energy and intelligence that marked his campaigns, Sherman describes striking incidents and anecdotes and collects dozens of his incisive and often outspoken wartime orders and reports. This complex self-portrait of an innovative and relentless American warrior provides firsthand accounts of the war's crucial events Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, the Atlanta campaign, the marches through Georgia and the Carolinas." Maps, charts, chronology, appendix, index, notes. 1136 pp. ISBN: 0-940450658.

    Condition: Very near fine in dark blue cloth with a ribbon marker in a like dustjacket (previous owner's name stamp.)

    Book ID: 79838
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  • Sterling, Dorothy, editor.
    THE TROUBLE THEY SEEN: Black People Tell the Story of Reconstruction.

    Edition: First printing.

    Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1976 dj. Hardcover first edition - Covers black history in America from 1865 to 1877 from the point of view of less prominent blacks of the South in letters, diaries, newspaper accounts and official documents. With mention of Frederick Douglass, Jonathon Gibbs, Martin R. Delany, Robert Smalls, and James Lynch. Index. 490 pgs. ISBN: 0-385-080077.

    Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dj.

    Book ID: 19859
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  • Sumner, Mark.
    DEVIL'S TOWER.

    Edition: Paperback original - first printing.

    New York: Ballantine, 1996. First edition - The first in a series of alternative histories of the American West - in this one, Jake Bird has to confront the most dangerous wielder of magic in all the West - General George Armstrong Custer. ISBN: 0-345-40209x.

    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 21019
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  • Sumner, Mark.
    DEVIL'S TOWER.

    Edition: Paperback original - first printing.

    New York: Ballantine, 1996. First edition - The first in a series of alternative histories of the American West - in this one, Jake Bird has to confront the most dangerous wielder of magic in all the West - General George Armstrong Custer. ISBN: 0-345-40209x.

    Condition: Very good+.

    Book ID: 21161
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  • REQUIEM. by Tancig, W.J.
    Tancig, W.J.
    REQUIEM.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & London & South Brunswick: Thomas Yoseloff, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A long narrative poem which tells the story of ordinary soldiers during the Civil War - the hours, the miles, the comradeship, the endless waiting - as the Southern troops slogged north towards Gettysburg. Illustrated throughout with vintage drawings and photographs. Slightly oversized format. 75 pp.

    Condition: Very good in gray cloth with blue lettering in a fair only dust jacket with significant edgewear and chipping.

    Book ID: 67628
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  • [Thomas, William Hannibal] Smith, John David.
    BLACK JUDAS: William Hannibal Thomas and 'The American Negro.'

    Edition: First printing.

    Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first biography of the man who served with distinction in the Colored Troops during the Civil War (losing in his arm), was a teacher,lawyer and journalist, and then betrayed his race by writing one of the most insulting attacks on African Americans ever published - the 1901 book 'The American Negro.' Hardcover review copy with publisher's material laid in. Appendices, notes, index, 386 pages. ISBN: 0-8203-21303.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 22885
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  • AMERICAN EMPIRE: THE VICTORIOUS OPPOSITION. by Turtledove, Harry.
    Turtledove, Harry.
    AMERICAN EMPIRE: THE VICTORIOUS OPPOSITION.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Del Rey / Ballantine, (2003). Hardcover first edition - The third book in his American Empire series - one which began with a simple question: "What if the South had won the Civil War? Now, seventy years have passed since the first War Between the States. The North American continent is locked in a battle of politics, economies, and moralities. In a world that has already felt the soul-shattering blow of the Great War, North America is the powder keg that could ignite another global conflict." 496 pp. ISBN: 0-345-44423x.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 80320
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  • ADVANCE AND RETREAT. by Turtledove, Harry.
    Turtledove, Harry.
    ADVANCE AND RETREAT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Baen Books, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An alternate history book, which turns "the American Civil War literally upside-down, a fantasy which brings to life a war to free the blond serfs of the North and raise them to equality beside their swarthy masters. Turtledove not only swaps South for North but replaces rifles with crossbows, horses with unicorns and railways with magic carpets." (PW) SIGNED and dated on the title page. 394 pp. ISBN: 0-743435761.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 81221
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  • THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD: American Empire, Book Two. by Turtledove, Harry.
    Turtledove, Harry.
    THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD: American Empire, Book Two.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Ballantine, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Twice in the last century, brutal war erupted between the United States and the Confederacy" - and in 1924, it is a time of rebuilding, of restoring the monuments in Washington and reclaiming the devasted cities. SIGNED and dated on the title page. Maps. 503 pp. ISBN: 0-345-444213.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 81219
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  • GILBERT, OR THEN AND NOW: A Thrilling Story of the Life and Achievements of a Virginia Negro. by Underwood, J. Cabaniss (inscribed to Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
    Underwood, J. Cabaniss (inscribed to Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
    GILBERT, OR THEN AND NOW: A Thrilling Story of the Life and Achievements of a Virginia Negro.

    Edition: First edition.

    Philadelphia: H. D. Shaiffer, (1902). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Interesting association copy of this novel - INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "Presented to Ella Wheeler Wilcox with Compliments of H.D. Shaiffer, Publisher, 1614 Diamond St, Phila PA" Although this purports to be a factual account, it is a rather strange novel dedicated to "all those gentlemen of the Afro-American race who have labored diligently for the elevation of their brethren." Gilbert straddles two worlds: as the son of a free mother, he was also freeborn, but his father was a slave and it was a slave owner who took him in. During the War Between the States he assisted both the Federal and Confederate soldiers at various times,…

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    Philadelphia: H. D. Shaiffer, (1902). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Interesting association copy of this novel - INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "Presented to Ella Wheeler Wilcox with Compliments of H.D. Shaiffer, Publisher, 1614 Diamond St, Phila PA" Although this purports to be a factual account, it is a rather strange novel dedicated to "all those gentlemen of the Afro-American race who have labored diligently for the elevation of their brethren." Gilbert straddles two worlds: as the son of a free mother, he was also freeborn, but his father was a slave and it was a slave owner who took him in. During the War Between the States he assisted both the Federal and Confederate soldiers at various times, and was treated as a friend by almost all whom he encountered both black and white. For a while after the war, he became a prosperous businessman, until he was fleeced by unscrupulous white men. Then destitute, he encountered a man whose life he had saved many years ago, and who wrote this book as a way to raise money for his needs. It ends with the comment that he "ceaselessly prays that a sympathetic public may pity him in his unfortunate old age to the extent of the price of a copy of this work." It is probable that the publisher in this case is also the author: neither produced another book, and the fact that the publisher is known to have inscribed many copies (while I have never encountered a copy signed by the author) tends to indicate that he was more involved in it than simply as "publisher" Illustrated with six glossy plates. 309 pp.

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    Condition: Very good minus in original burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover (chip at base of spine and some rubbing to the lettering on the spine but overall a tight and sturdy copy)

    Book ID: 70071
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  • BAND OF ANGELS. by Warren, Robert Penn (1905-1989)
    Warren, Robert Penn (1905-1989)
    BAND OF ANGELS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (1955) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of the best known novels by this writer who was the only person to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and for Poetry, as well as being the first Poet Laureate of the United States. This novel set in the years before and after the Civil War, is the story of Amanda Starr, raised on her father's plantation in Kentucky, who is sent away to school in Ohio. When she returns at age sixteen, upon her father's death, she discovers that her mother was one of the plantation slaves and that she, herself, is subject to seizure and sale, by her bankrupt father's creditors. An account of one…

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    New York: Random House, (1955) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of the best known novels by this writer who was the only person to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and for Poetry, as well as being the first Poet Laureate of the United States. This novel set in the years before and after the Civil War, is the story of Amanda Starr, raised on her father's plantation in Kentucky, who is sent away to school in Ohio. When she returns at age sixteen, upon her father's death, she discovers that her mother was one of the plantation slaves and that she, herself, is subject to seizure and sale, by her bankrupt father's creditors. An account of one woman's struggle to be free, and also a picture of one of the darkest sides of American history. 375 pp. First state dust jacket with 8/55 on the front flap. ISBN: 0-394-46141x.

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    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (staining to the upper corner of the textblock, not affecting the pages, dj is price-clipped, minor edgewear and toning to the interior - but overall a tight and clean copy)

    Book ID: 85760
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  • Woodward, William E.
    YEARS OF MADNESS.

    New York: Putnam, 1951. dj. A book written about the Civil War to reveal the "utter and cruel absurdity" of it - published posthumously, this is a book that makes no pretense of being unbiased.

    Condition: Very good in black cloth, no dj.

    Book ID: 14390
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  • CANAAN'S TONGUE. by Wray, John.
    Wray, John.
    CANAAN'S TONGUE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel by the prizewinning author of "The Right Hand of Sleep", a writer named by Granta magazine in 2007 as one of America's best novelists. Inspired by the real life story of the notorious outlaw John Murrell and his protege Virgil, this novel, set on the eve of the Civil War, is about a gang of men hunted by both the Union and the Confederacy for dealing in stolen slaves. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 1-400040868.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 83009
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  • AMALGAMATION POLKA. by Wright, Stephen.
    Wright, Stephen.
    AMALGAMATION POLKA.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, a Civil War novel which ranges from the underground railroad near the Erie Canal to the Bahamas, bleeding Kansas and the fields of battle. Thomas Pychon called this 'a dark and lyrical tale of madness and prophecy' and says that Wright now 'honorably takes his place' among our finest storytellers. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-679-45117X.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (crease on front endpaper, a bit of bleeding from the bottom edge of the boards to the interior of the dj)

    Book ID: 58122
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  • AMALGAMATION POLKA. by Wright, Stephen.
    Wright, Stephen.
    AMALGAMATION POLKA.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, a Civil War novel which ranges from the underground railroad near the Erie Canal to the Bahamas, bleeding Kansas and the fields of battle. Thomas Pychon called this 'a dark and lyrical tale of madness and prophecy' and says that Wright now 'honorably takes his place' among our finest storytellers. SIGNED on the title page. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-679-45117X.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 81627
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