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"Our Special Artist": Alfred R. Waud's Civil War


Waud, Alfred R.

Hardcover. Mechanicsburg, PA, Stackpole Books, 2nd, April 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Sticker on rear cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454487


Price: $15.00 

 

'Ware Sherman - A Journal of Three Months Personal Experience in the Last Days of the Confederacy


LeConte, Joseph

Hardcover. Berkeley, Univ. of Calif. Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Intro by his daughter Caroline LeConte. Black & white illust. Spine with light fade otherwise

Record # 57045


Price: $75.00 

 

1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History


Flood, Charles Bracelen

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster/Colophon, 1st Edition, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 521 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Tan, marbled cover boards, red quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. In beautiful condition. A masterly re-creation of the last twelve months of Abraham Lincoln's life.

Record # 32459


Price: $19.00 

Abial and Anna: The Life of a Civil War Veteran as Told in Family Letters (SIGNED)Kallgren, Beverly Hayes
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Abial and Anna: The Life of a Civil War Veteran as Told in Family Letters (SIGNED)


Kallgren, Beverly Hayes

Hardcover. Maine, University of Maine Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Includes revised Index insert. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Very clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap: "...a sequel and companion volume to Dear Friend Anna, contains later letters beginning in 1866. ...Abial and Anna's courtship, begun in wartime becomes more turbulent as Abial expresses his frustrations at the political ramifications in seeking employment, explains his postwar obligations to his siblings, and tells of his desire to further his education. ...We learn of the strength, courage, humor and faith which sustains the family despite economic problems, illness, pain and grief."

Record # 30545


Price: $23.00 

 

African American History in the Press 1851-1899: From the Coming of the Civil War to the Rise of Jim Crow as Reported and Illustrated in Selected Newspapers of the Time (2 volumes)


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Hardcover. New York, Gale, 2nd, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes. Part of the Schneider Collection.

Record # 801807


Price: $51.00 

 

African American History in the Press, 1851-1899 : From the Coming of the Civil War to the Rise of Jim Crow As Reported and Illustrated in Selected Newspapers of the Time. VOLUME 1: 1851-1869 and Volume 2: 1870-1899)


Schneider, Rich

Hardcover. New York, Gale Group, 2nd, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 volumes/1325 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to laminated covers.

Record # 468241


Price: $50.00 

All's for the Best: The Civil War Reminiscences and Letters of Daniel W. SawtelleBuckingham (Editor), Peter H.
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All's for the Best: The Civil War Reminiscences and Letters of Daniel W. Sawtelle


Buckingham (Editor), Peter H.

Hardcover. Knoxville, TN, University of Tennessee Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 361 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. In great shape. From the dust jacket front flap: "At the outbreak of the Civl war, Daniel Withum Sawtelle was a young man working on his family's farm in the north woods of Maine. The Republican son of a Democrat, he initially took little notice of a war he assumed would be over almost as soon as it started. As the conflict wore on, however, he began to disagree vehemently with his father about the future of the nation. Finally, in February 1862, he enlisted in the Eighth Maine Infantry. Fifty years later, Sawtelle drew on his wartime correspondence to compile a memoir of his experience."

Record # 30534


Price: $31.00 

 

America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation


Goldfield, David

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 632 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, a touch of tanning, and original bookstore price tag on back cover,otherwise very good. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Some tanning to edges, pages clean. Binding tight, spine slightly cocked (shelf wear). In great shape. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. A fresh and original account of the era that transformed the United States forever.

Record # 31824


Price: $19.00 

 

American Heritage History of American Antiques (2 vols.): from the Revolution to the Civil War, from the Civil War to World War 1


American Heritage

Hardcover. New York, American Heritage Publishing Co, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages, 400 pages. Burgundy cloth covers with small embossed emblem of an eagle to the bottom front covers, gilt lettering to spines, illustrated endpapers, numerous b&w and color illustrations, color illustrated slip covers for each volume. Light wear to slip covers, previous owner's pencil inscription to half title page of volume 1; overall very clean, tight copies.

Record # 804798


Price: $19.00 

 

American Iliad, The


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Hardcover. Indianapolis, IN, Bobbs Merrill Co. Inc., Unknown, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 720 pages including index and black & white illustrations. The epic story of the war as narrated by eyewitnesses and contemporaries. Red cloth covered boards.

Record # 700282


Price: $12.00 

American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857Denton, Sally

American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857


Denton, Sally

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 471661


Price: $19.00 

 

American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague, Civil War "Belle of the North" and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal


Oller, John

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471187


Price: $15.00 

 

Andersonville: The Last Depot


Marvel, William

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, October 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 pages, b&w photographs. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else clean and tight.

Record # 454524


Price: $8.00 

April '65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil WarTidwell, William A
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April '65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War


Tidwell, William A

Hardcover. Kent, OH, Kent State University Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 280 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470497


Price: $13.00 

 

At Andersonville - A Narrative of Personal Adventure at Andersonville, Florence and Charleston Rebel Prisons


Brownell, Josiah C.

Paperback. Glen Cove Public Library, Rep.wraps, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A reprint of the original 1867 ed. 40 pages.

Record # 60831


Price: $28.00 

 

Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy


Richard M. McMurry

Hardcover. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2000, 229 pages. Hardcover. Great Campaigns of the Civil War series. B/w illustrations. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean. Looks nearly new and barely read. In great shape. McMurry examines the Atlanta campaign as a political and military unity in the context of the greater struggle of the war itself.

Record # 31795


Price: $25.00 

 

Back Home in Oneida - Hermon Clarke and His Letters


Jackson, Harry F./Thomas F. O'Donnell

Hardcover. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 212 pages. Hardcover. 8 pages of black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613477


Price: $15.00 

 

Badge of Gallantry, The - Recollections of Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Winners


Mitchell, Joseph B.

Hardcover. Shippensburg, PA, White Mane, Reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 194 pages. Orig. pub. in 1968. Damp wrinkle to rear dj panel - not affecting book.

Record # 61125


Price: $20.00 

Ball's Bluff-an Episode and Its Consequences to Some of UsPeirson, Charles Lawrence
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Ball's Bluff-an Episode and Its Consequences to Some of Us


Peirson, Charles Lawrence

Hardcover. Salem MA, Salem Press Company, 1st, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, 54 pages, b&w frontispiece "Field and Staff of Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1861". Previous owner's sticker with name on front fly leaf, rear fly leaf removed. Otherwise clean.

Record # 415263


Price: $63.00 

 

BALLAD OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH, A: The Songs and Music sung and played by Union and Confederate Soldiers during and after the Civil War.


Angle, Paul M. and Miers, Earl Schenck.

Hardcover. Kingsport, TN, Privately Printed at Kingsport Press, 1st, February, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, First Edition. Limited to 1250 copies for presentation. Laid inside front cover a presentation letter signed by Frank S. Sheahan of Kingsport Press. Colophon reads in part, printed by Kingsport Press, Inc., in an edition of twelve hundred fifty copies, solely for distribution among its friends. The plates have been destroyed, there will be no reprint. 78 pages. Illustrated throughout with musical instruments. 8vo. Blue and gray cloth. Gilt pictorial of banjo and guitar with song book centered front cover. Scarce. As New in original plastic dust jacket. Slipcase with browning at edges.

Record # 220706


Price: $29.00 

 

Bastiles of the Confederacy: A Reply to Jefferson Davis


Moran, Frank E., Illust. by: Frank Moran

Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, The Moran Family, 1st, 1890, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 201 pages. Hardcover. Privately printed original publication, printed by Moran's family. Text and illustrations by Author. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in maroon cloth, gilt title stamped on spine and with decoration on front cover. Some fraying to bottom of spine, a touch of chipping and rubbing to covers. B/w frontispiece plate (portrait of author). Edges and pages have tanning from age but doesn't affect text or illustrations. From title page: "Being a Narrative of the Treatment of the Union Prisoners in the Military Prisons of the South During the War of the Rebellion. From Official Records of the United states War Department, Reports by Committees of Congress, Captured Confederate Archives, and From Evidence Taken at the Trial of Captain Henry Wirz, in 1865, and From the Personal Experiences of the Author During Twenty Months Captivity in Six Military Prisons of the South. With a Review of the exchange Controversy."

Record # 31720


Price: $100.00 

 

Battered Stars, The: One State's Civil War Ordeal During Grant's Overland Campaign From the Home Front in Vermont to the Battlefields of Virginia (INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Coffin, Howard

Hardcover. Woodstock, VT, Countryman Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 415 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Deckled foreedge. B/w illustrations throughout. Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean, binding tight. Spine straight. looks barely read and nearly new. Coffin tells the story of the people at home, of the granite-like resolve; as well as the wartime scenes as they appear today.

Record # 31806


Price: $25.00 

Battered Stars, The: One State's Civil War Ordeal During Grant's Overland Campaign, From the Home Front in Vermont to the Battlefields of VirginiaCoffin, Howrad

Battered Stars, The: One State's Civil War Ordeal During Grant's Overland Campaign, From the Home Front in Vermont to the Battlefields of Virginia


Coffin, Howrad

Hardcover. Woodstock, Vermont, Countryman Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 415 pages. SIGNED BY COFFIN ON TITLE PAGE. Blue boards, gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust jacket, illustrated throughout with b&w plates. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket, clean boards, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 808058


Price: $40.00 

 

Battle from the Start, A: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest


Wills, Brian Steel

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 457 pages. Hardcover. Tan cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean. Decorated endpapers. In great shape. The biography of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Record # 31796


Price: $15.00 


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