Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1950. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Grey cloth with gilt spine lettering. xxxiv, 588pp; xiv, pp. 589-1201. Frontispieces, numerous illustrations and maps, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Mild bit of edgewear. Later printing, tight and nice, of this massive anthology that E.B. Long characterizes as "Another..... More
New York: The Fairfax Press, [1982]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xliv, 1201pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, maps. Very good/near fine. Circular blind-embossed ownership impress on title page. Tight, handsome reprint edition. More
New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, [2000]. Hardcover. 4to. Black paper over boards with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 854pp. Maps. Near fine/near fine. Tight, handsome first edition of this greatly revised and expanded version of Commager's 1950 "The Blue and the Gray: The Story of the Civil..... More
New York: Promontory Press, 1976. Hardcover. 4to. Blue paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 284pp. Color frontispiece, extensive illustrations (most color), pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Early (not first) printing, tight and attractive, of this sound overview. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth, dust jacket. ix, 476pp. Very good/good plus. Some jacket edgewear, with several edge chips, but complete and overall fairly attractive. A tight and nice first edition. More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 552pp. Maps, grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear; ownership signature and inkstamped name on inner flyleaves. A tight, quite nice later printing of #235, first published in 1945 and here..... More