N.p. Pleasant Hill Press, 1972. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 76pp. Illustrations, map, pictorial endpapers. Fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear; nonauthorial gift inscription on inner flyleaf. Tight, handsome first edition. Life during the Civil War in a Utopian community in..... More
N.p. Pleasant Hill Press, 1972. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine with silver lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 76pp. Illustrations, map, pictorial endpapers. Fine/very good. Jacket faintly edgeworn; miniscule ownership signature on title page. Quite tight and nice first edition. Life during the Civil War..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. Hardcover. Small 4to. Maroon cloth, dust jacket. vii, 438pp. Illustrations, map. Fine/very good. Mildest of jacket wear. First edition, tight and nice. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. Hardcover. Small 4to. Maroon cloth, dust jacket. vii, 438pp. Illustrations, map. Very good/very good. Bit of jacket edgewear; ownership name inkstamped on front flyleaf, top and outer page edges. First edition, tight and nice. More
New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co., 1862. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. 30pp. Good. Internally sound (some soiling to several pages), but outer wrappers soiled and a bit edgeworn. At a banquet honoring British member of Parliament Bright (1811-89), both Bright and his 1846 comrade-in-arms in repealing the corn laws, Cobden..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1958. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue and grey cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 350pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mildest of jacket edgewear. Early (not first) printing, tight and attractive, of this study which Thomas Wells, in the Nevins bibliography, calls "A superficial and sometimes inaccurate treatment." NEVINS..... More
Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, [1995]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering. xiv, 433pp. Numerous illustrations and maps. Near fine. Couple of small ink margin "x"s on two pages, else tight, bright and handsome. First edition of this surprisingly uncommon volume. Lacks jacket, else a sharp copy. More
Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, [1988]. Hardcover. Foreword by Kathleen Georg Harrison. 4to. Glossy pictorial paper over boards. xvi, 208pp. Maps, numerous illustrations. Very good. Binding a bit sunned about the edges, else internally fine. A tight, nice first edition of this specialized study, well illustrated with numerous fascinating then-and-now photographs. Name/address..... More
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1882. Hardcover. 8vo. Red pebble-grained cloth with black and gilt lettering, rules, decorations ornate pictorial stamping. xviii, 558pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, numerous full-page plates and maps, small graphics and maps, brown floral decorative endpapers. Very good. While internally tight, bright and fine, binding spine (only) shows light..... More
Woodstock, VT: The Countryman Press, [2002]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxii, 415pp. Illustrations, maps. Fine/fine. A perfectly pristine second printing. More
Woodstock, VT: The Countryman Press, 1993. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 376pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. Three 5" X 7" promotional glossy photographs and a brief printed promotional excerpt laid in. More
[Madison]: The Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, 1968. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff orange wrappers. 22pp. Illustrations. Fine. First edition, tight and handsome -- and signed large and bold by Coffman in black fineline on inside front wrapper. Historical Bulletin No. 23, being Coffman and Lamer's speeches delivered in 1966 and 1967..... More
Madison: The Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, 1968. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff orange wrappers. 22pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Tight and nice first edition of "Historical Bulletin No. 23" -- Coffman and Lamer's speeches given in 1966 and 1967 at this group's annual meetings. More
New York: The Fairfax Press, [[1983]. Hardcover. Illustrations by the author. 4to. Grey cloth spine with blue lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 160. Extensive line drawings, color pictorial endpapers. Fine/very good. Archivally closed (on verso) edge tear to otherwise-handsome jacket. Quite tight and attractive reprint edition..... More
Charleston, WV: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., [1998]. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xii, 120pp. Extensive illustrations, maps. Near fine. Superb, tight later (6th) printing of this 1990 survey. More
Charleston, WV: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, [1995]. Paperback. 4to. Stiff grey glossy pictorial wrappers. ix, 170pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, map. Near fine. Later (7th) printing, tight and handsome, of the revised edition of this popular, well-illustrated 1976 chronicle. More
Charleston, WV: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, [1984]. Paperback. 4to. Stiff grey glossy pictorial wrappers. ix, 150pp. Numerous illustrations, map. Near fine. A tight and attractive second printing of the revised edition of this popular, well-illustrated 1976 chronicle. More
Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1866. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff tan wrappers. 14pp. Very good. Bit of soiling to outer wrappers, else tight and nice. Collis, a colonel with the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry, published this collection of documents regarding the character of one Frederick Fernandez Cavada (1832-71) to protest Cavada's appointment..... More
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 York: Castle Books, 1967. Hardcover. Introduction by Bruce Catton. Small 4to. Tan paper over boards, dust jacket. x, 564pp. Illustrations. Very good/good plus. Jacket scuffed and edgeworn; no front or rear blank flyleaves present (nor evidence -- as issued?). Decent reprint edition of this anthology of eyewitness accounts, part..... More
Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, [1984]. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. viii, 106pp. Illustrations, maps. Fine. Tight and pristine third printing of this 1979 study. More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, [1990]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. xv, 249pp, (5pp). Illustrations. Fine. Tight and pristine first softbound edition of this 1977 study. More