Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1959. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth spine and red marbled paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrations, map endpapers. Very good/good plus. Minor jacket edgewear and slightly sunned jacket spine. First edition, tight and clean, of this popular biography of Colonel John Hunt Morgan. DORNBUSCH II..... More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [1986]. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 243pp. Map. Very good. Single outer-edge bump to otherwise-fine copy. First "Bison Book" softbound edition of this 1963 study of Confederate POWs recruited in prison camps to serve in the West. NEVINS I, 187. More
Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, [1885]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. 384pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Tight and internally nice, though spine is rather age toned and board a bit unevenly tanned. First edition of this uncommon biography. More
N.p. The University of Michigan, 1966. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff blue pictorial wrappers. 31pp. Illustrations. Very good. Tight and nice Bulletin No. 9, Supplement 11, in the "Michigan Historical Collections" series, a handy slim survey of this state's regiments and noted participants. From collection of noted Michigan collector Dr. Ralph C...... More
Mason City, IA: Savas Publishing Company, [2000]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 320pp. Illustrations, maps. Finefine. A handsome, tight second printing of this essay compilation that includes contributions from John Y. Simon, Charles P. Roland, Lowell H. Harrison, Warren Lambert and others. More
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, [1965]. Hardcover. Edited with a foreword by Clyde C. Walton. Preface by W.G. Putney. Small 4to. Grey and blue cloth with gilt and red spine lettering, grey and blue pictorial paper over boards slipcase. xxv, 180pp. Illustrations, maps, tables. Fine/fine. First edition, with colophon leaf..... More
Baltimore: Butternut and Blue, 1988. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt. viii, 519pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, maps. Fine. A handsome, tight reprint of the scarce Boston 1906 first edition, which Nevins calls "An underrated, comprehensive unit history containing an admirable blend of the personal, statistical, and factual...." NEVINS I, 65. More
Hartford: The Hartford Insurance Group, n.y., [1961]. Small 4to. Heavy card stock folder housing 2 loose leaves. Near fine. Probable sole printing. Front wrapper notes, "On the occasion of the Civil War Centennial we are proud to offer these two prints of Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee... reproduced from..... More
N.p. Naval Historical Foundation, n.y. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. 8pp. Very good. First edition, tight and nice. Full text of this flag officer's letter written from Norfolk on 27 March 1862 to Secretary of the Navy Stephen R. Mallory. Uncommon. From the library of noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar Arnold..... More
New York: Bonanza Books, [1963]. Hardcover. 4to. Grey cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 288pp. Extensive illustrations. Very good/very good. Jacket slightly edgeworn, with somewhat sunned spine. A tight and nice later (eighth) printing of this reprint of the 1951 Crown Publishers pictorial overview. NEVINS II, 6. More
New York: The Modern Library, [2001]. Paperback. Introduction by Philip Van Doren Stern. Small 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xli, 627pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Slightest bit of faint edgewear. First of this Modern Library paperback edition, being a facsimile reprint of Thomas Yoseloff's 1959 edition of the classic 1883 study..... More
Berryville, VA: Rockbridge Publishing Company, 1998. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 250pp. Very good. Light vertical crease on front wrapper (only). A tight, nice third edition of this hands-on guide -- "The Complete Guide to People, Places, Events & Products." Interesting survey of the Civil War industry as it..... More
Portland, ME: N.p., 1923. Hardcover. Small 4to. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering. 66pp. Frontispiece. Near fine/near fine. First edition, tight and handsome and with the unprinted tan jacket present and nice, of this slim biography and tribute to the Bowdoin graduate and Union soldier (1838-1915) who became a noted..... More
N.p. Northwestern University Press, [1966]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth. xv, 393pp. Very good. Almost a "Near fine," with just the faintest binding wear. Tight, attractive first edition of this useful reference. Essential tool for researching Illinois regiments and their papers, as well as all Civil War manuscript material in..... More
N.p. Northwestern University Press, 1966. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth. xv, 393pp. Good. Spine lettering badly rubbed and binding overall rather spotty, but internally very good. Tight, serviceable first edition of this useful reference. More
Iowa City: Press of the Camp Pope Bookshop, [1992]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Grey cloth with gilt lettering. xx, 208pp. Frontispiece, illustration. Fine. Publisher W. Clark Kenyon provides the introduction to this facsimile reprint of The Neale Publishing Company's 1911 first edition, which Frank Byrne critiques as "The rewritten version of..... More
Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, [2005]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 224pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. A superb, pristine, tight first edition. More
Danville, VA: BGES, 1998. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff blue wrappers. 55pp. Illustrations, maps. Near fine. Ownership name/address label at upper right of front wrapper of Civil War medical history scholar Ralph C. Gordon. Number 8 in this series of scholarly monographs published by the Blue and Gray Education Society. More
Washington, DC: McGill & Witherow, n.y., [1861]. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 8pp. Very good. Minor binding traces along left margin; moderate, even age toning throughout. Typical Congressman's lip-flapping on the political tensions of the day. "It was officially announced yesterday in this Hall that Abraham Lincoln, a worthy, patriotic, and intelligent..... More
Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Full grey leatherette, dust jacket. viii, 212pp. Illustrations, maps, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/near fine. First edition, tight and attractive -- and signed boldly by the author in black ballpoint opposite the title page. More
New York: Fairfax Press, 1981. Hardcover. 8vo. Black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 146pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/fine. Bookplate on front pastedown. Reprint edition. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. Hardcover. 8vo. Maroon cloth spine and maroon paper over boards, dust jacket. xiv, 146pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Fine/fine. First edition. Interesting brief study. Laid in is a brief Typed Letter Signed from Canfield, 1p, small 4to, New York, NY, 8 August 1985. More
N.p. Da Capo Press, [2002]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 167pp. Illustrations, maps. Near fine. A tight and superb first paperback edition. More
New York: Franklin Watts, 1965. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 186pp. Near fine/very good. First edition, from "The Watts Histories of the United States Navy." More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xxi, 396pp. Illustration. Fine/near fine. First edition. The Civil War from the perspective of the French ambassador to the United States. More