Mississippi, Tennessee, and Louisiana: 1862-63. A collection of eight letters, totaling 24 pages, handwritten in ink and pencil. One letter appears to be incomplete, possibly lacking a second leaf. The letters were sent by Zachariah Jordan Howell, and his brother-in-law Joseph Dickson Whitworth, while serving in the Confederate Army with.....
N.P. Circa 1860s to 1870s. Cartes de visite photo measuring 4 x 2.25", captioned "Confederate Generals" in the image, with tax stamp to verso. Some fading to image, mild soiling and foxing, loss to half of stamp.
[Pennsylvania]: 1861. Single leaf measuring 14 x 8.5", printed to recto. Broadside published by Pennsylvania Democrats voicing their opposition to an act passed by the state Senate on April 12, 1861, the day of the outbreak of the Civil War, providing for the appointment of a military commission with full.....
New York: Charles Magnus, Circa 1863 to 1865. Octavo, accordion style booklet with six song sheets, printed on heavy stock with hand colored engraved vignettes at the top of each sheet; decorative covers. A sample catalog printing smaller versions of patriotic song sheets published by Charles Magnus, with a price.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. First Edition. Octavo, green cloth cover, gilt titling to spine, 634 pp. An analytical first person account of the Eastern Theater of the Civil War, in which Alexander narrates his service from before secession through Appomattox. An ex-library copy with bookplate to front pastedown.....
Baltimore: Printed for the Author, by Inness and Company, 1866. Octavo, rebound in later blue cloth with gilt spine title, 263, [1] pp. An early "Lost Cause" tract, defending the Southern cause and Jefferson Davis, by an architect of the Lost Cause narrative. Owner inscription to front pastedown of Norman.....
[Baltimore?]: 1894. Octavo, grey cloth with gilt illustration and lettering, [8], 133, [1] pp, local ads for Baltimore businesses, illustration plates. A good copy with soiling to covers, bit of cracking to hinges.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981. 8vo, blue cloth, with dust jacket, 886 pp. First edition, first printing, with complete number line down to one and original $29.95 price intact. Van Woodward won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for History for this work. This copy inscribed by Van Woodward.....
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1883. Octavo, green cloth, gilt, blue and black illustrated cover, 558 pp, illustrated. First person Civil War narrative based on the author's experiences as a war correspondent with the Union armies from the first Battle of Bull Run through to the fall of Richmond. Hint of.....
Chicago: C.E. Ellis & Co, 1883. 5.75 x 4", orange printed wrappers, 62 pp. A songster devoted exclusively to "Old Army Songs," apparently compiled by an anonymous veteran. Includes "John Brown," "Marching Through Georgia," "Marching to Dixie's Land," "Massa's in De Cold Ground," "Poor Old Slave," "Slavery Days," "Sherman's March.....
New York: The Authors Publishing Company, 1880. First edition. 8vo, 310pp, original brown with with black and gilt decoration/lettering. Rare narrative of the author's experiences being a Union soldier and prisoner of war of the Confederacy. This author was a Captain with the Ninth New Jersey Veteran Volunteers. A bright.....
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2018. Hardcover, 352 pp, purple cloth, with pictorial slipcase. Number 36 of 71 specially bound copies from the first printing signed by Frazier. A fine copy.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1896. 8vo, 372pp, original blue cloth with gilt lettering. A Civil War novel by a British author, about a romance between Confederate soldier and a Northern woman. Ernest Baker's 1913 "Guide to the Best Fiction in English" note that this book "contains an admirable.....
St. Johnsbury, VT: The Republican Press, 1893. First Edition. Octavo, quarter brown leather with red cloth, gilt titling to cover and spine, 271 pp, illustrated. Inscribed by author on front endpaper, dated 1894. Jeffrey's documentary-style Civil War sourcebook that compiles Confederate prison records and Union prisoners’ journals to chronicle conditions.....
New York: Bryan, Taylor & Co, 1894. Folio, blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustration, 551 pp, profusely illustration. A very good, bright copy with wear to corners and edges, mild discoloration to covers, toning to pages.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1955. First edition. Large 8vo, gray cloth, with dust jacket, 768 pp. First edition. Fading/offsetting to covers, mild soiling to covers, offsetting to endpapers, news clipping pasted to front endpaper, owner inscriptions to endpapers, slight page toning, dust jacket rubbed and soiled.....
E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1943. First Edition. 8.5 x 5.75", brown hardcover with dust jacket, 256 pp. Written in journal format, this personal account of several years preceding and during the American Civil War documents the life of a widow raising 6 children in Virginia. Toning to pages, inscription.....
Philadelphia: Thomas W. Hartley, 1870. Octavo, dark brown cloth cover, gilt titling on spine, 728 pp. A post–Civil War critical review accusing the Lincoln administration of violating civil liberties by arresting and imprisoning civilians without due process, using this narrative as evidence that wartime military and political authorities created an.....
Philadelphia: Thomas W. Hartley, 1877. Octavo, brown cloth cover, gilt titling on cover and spine, 728 pp. A post–Civil War critical review accusing the Lincoln administration of violating civil liberties by arresting and imprisoning civilians without due process, using this narrative as evidence that wartime military and political authorities created.....
Lynchburg, Va: J.P. Bell Company, Inc, 1911. First Edition. Octavo, grey cloth with gilt lettering, flag illustrations to front cover, 286 pp, portrait frontispiece, in the original dust jacket. Memoirs of the Civil War by William Henry Morgan, a member of 11th Virginia Regiment, Kemper's Brigade, Pickett's Division, Army of.....
Atlanta, GA: The Foote and Davies Company, 1899. First Edition. Octavo, gray cloth cover, gilt titling to cover and spine, 439 pp. Mrs. Pickett's post war memoir of Confederate General George E. Pickett and the soldiers who served under him, especially in the Army of Northern Virginia. Hint of toning.....
New York: E.B. Treat & Co, 1866. First Edition. Large octavo, 752, [2] pp, illustration plates, brown cloth with gilt. First edition. A sound copy with fading to covers, chipping to cloth at spine ends, foxing to pages, bumping to corners, owner inscriptions to front endpapers, pp. 227 torn with.....
New York: The Century Co, 1897. First Edition. Octavo, blue cloth with gilt, 546 pp. A good copy with hinges cracked, wear and mild staining to covers, especially spine, fraying to spine ends.
New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1891. First Edition. Octavo, blue cloth, blue and gilt titling to illustrated cover and spine, 496 pp, illustrated. Civil War volume presenting first person accounts and biographical sketches of Union soldiers who won the medal of honor. Front hinge cracked, staining to text block edges.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. Abridged Edition in One Volume. Hardcover. Octavo, 604 pp, in a fine binding of half blue morocco with blue cloth, spine in six compartments with gilt decoration and lettering, marbled endpapers. Very good with foxing to pages, rubbing to joints and corners of.....