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Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1955. 963, illus., maps, footnotes, bibliography, index, some soiling to fore-edge, some wear & sm tears DJ edges, some soiling rear DJ. More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1955. 963, illus., maps, footnotes, bibliography, index, some soiling to fore-edge, some wear & sm tears DJ edges, some soiling rear DJ. More
Concord, NH: George C. Sprague, printed at the Rumford Press, 1913. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. vii, [5], 228 pages. RARE. 6-Guns #1751 Howes P-514 (or P-571 in another source), Wheat #160, Mintz #374 Herd #1823, Graff 3333. Not in Dornbusch. Cover has minor wear and soiling. Lengthy inscription by descendent on fep. Inscription reads: November 9, 1978 Bethesda, Maryland To: Brian and Jody: This book was written by my mother's Grand father about some of his experiences in the early times in our great country. Hope you will enjoy having it. Best personal regards, George E. Walton. The Preface states that this was printed for the Potter family, his children and grandchildren. The Preface was written by George C. Sprague. Theodore Edgar Potter (1832-1910) was a member of the 1st Minnesota Cavalry Regiment which served in the U.S. Civil War. Includes chapters entitled: Boyhood Days, Across the Plains, In the Rockies, Across the Desert, Golden California, With the Sonora Grays, Under Walker in Nicaragua, Still a Wanderer, Early Days in Minnesota, The Sioux War, The Dakota Campaign, Under Thomas in Tennessee, and The Capture of the Younger Brothers. The Sonora Grays were apparently a California State militia company associated with Columbia, Tuolumne County. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1956. 348, maps, endpaper maps, biblio, index, lib stamps, rear bd weak, rear flyleaf missing, DJ worn & stained, rough spot DJ spine. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1955. 22 cm, 256, illus., part of DJ cut off and pasted inside front board, some corner damage to front board. More
New York: Promontory Press, 1981. 32 cm, 256, profusely illus. in color, index, DJ worn, torn, and soiled. Introduction by A. K. Baragwanath, Museum of the City of NY. More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1955. Second Printing. 808, maps, footnotes, index, bibliography, small stains fore-edge, rear DJ soiled, DJ edges worn: small tears, small pcs missing. More
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, c1987. First? Printing. 24 cm, 374, appendices, notes, index, DJ somewhat soiled and some edge wear, erasure residue inside front flyleaf. More
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987. 374, appendices, notes, index, DJ slightly soiled and slight creasing at top and bottom edges. More
Arlington, VA: Prince Lithograph Co., Inc., 1961. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Wraps. 72 pages. Wraps. Illustrations (some in color). Tabular information. Map. Chronology of battles. Recommended Reading. Cover has some wear and soiling. "A Civil War Research Associates publication. " Collection of little-known and unusual facts about participants, battles and losses, and the cost of war, black and white photographs, reproductions in color of Union and Confederate uniforms, reference table of battles and losses listed in chronological order, map showing the major engagements, roster of Civil War Round Tables, plus recommended list of outstanding books on the Civil War. The author served on the staff of the American Military Institute and was a member of the Civil War Centennial Commission of the District of Columbia. The noted author, Virgil Carringtion Jones once described Mr. Prices as "a walking encyclopedia of Civil War lore." The American Civil War Centennial was the official United States commemoration of the American Civil War, also known as the War Between the States. Commemoration activities began in 1957, four years prior to the 100th anniversary of the commencement of hostilities, and ended in 1965 with the 100th anniversary of the surrender at Appomattox. The public commemoration of the Civil War commenced with the passage, by Congress in 1957, of a public act creating the United States Civil War Centennial Commission. More
Fairfax, Virginia: Prince Lithograph Co., Inc., 1961. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 72 pages. Illustrations (some in color) Name in ink on title page. This is one of A Civil War Research Associates Series. This handbook is divided into five parts. The first is a presentation of little-known and unusual facts about participants, battles and losses, and the cost of war. The second is a graphic portrayal of both the men and machines that made made the war of the 1860's. The special selection of photographs for this portion of the story were made available through the courtesy of the National Archives and the Library of Congress. Next are reproductions in color of Union and Confederate uniforms. The fourth section is a reference table of Battles and losses listed in chronological order, accompanied by a map showing the major engagements of the war. The final section is Recommended Reading. The author served on the staff of the American Military Institute and was a member of the Civil War Centennial Commission of the District of Columbia. The noted author, Virgil Carrington Jones once described Mr. Prices as "a walking encyclopedia of Civil War lore." More
Place_Pub: Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1957]. First Edition. Second Printing. 22 cm, 338, illus., maps, bibliography, notes, index, bookplate, DJ in plastic sleeve. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914. 447, index, slight discoloration inside boards, some soiling to fore-edge, board and spine edges worn, small tears at spine. More
New York: Ecco, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2011. First Ecco Paperback Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 8 inches. [16], 207, [1] pages. Illustrated front cover. Autographed copy sticker on front cover. Signed by the author on the Half Title Page. Some discoloration inside the covers. Includes chapters on Hard Times; Back of Beyond; Dead Confederates, The Ascent, The Woman Who Believed in Jaguars, Burning Bright, Return, Into the Gorge, Falling Star; The Corpse Bird, Waiting for the End of the World, and Lincolnites. Also includes Acknowledgments. Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, Burning Bright captures the complexities of Appalachia—a rugged, brutal landscape of exceptional beauty, promise, and suffering that serves as New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash's muse. Spanning from the Civil War to the present day, Rash's historical and modern settings are sewn together in a haunting patchwork of suspense and myth, populated by raw and unforgettable characters mined from the landscape. "Into the Gorge" gathered a second O. Henry Prize for Rash, and, along with "The Ascent," was selected for the Best American Short Stories series. Those stories and "Back of Beyond" were also selected for the Best New Stories from the South series. Rash is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to three other prizewinning novels, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and the World Made Straight; three collections; and three collections of stories, among them Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. More
Charleston, WV: Education Foundation, Inc., 1962. 168, illus., notes and references, small rough spot inside front flyleaf, bookplate inside front board. More
Headquarters Grand Army of the Republis, 1894. Hardcover. 70 p. More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1984. First Printing. 323, map, index. More
Nokesville, VA: Rokarn Publications, 1993. First edition. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. 306 p. Maps. More
Place_Pub: Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1865. 512, illus., foxing to text, fr bd quite weak, bds worn & scuffed, tears at spine, sm pcs missing at spine, rear bd creased. More
Arlington, VA: Institute of Naval Studies, Center for Naval Analyses, 1966. Reprint. Reprinted 1972. Wraps. ix, 208 p. 27 cm. Illustrations, Maps. More
Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2022. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xii, [2], 398, [4] pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Publisher's ephemera laid in. Bob Riel writes about history, politics, and travel. He is the author of Quest for the Presidency: The Storied and Surprising History of Presidential Campaigns in America. Bob earned a master’s degree in political science from Boston College, with a focus on the history of American presidential elections. In Quest for the Presidency, he weaves together his interest in presidential campaigns with a curiosity about the interconnectedness of events. The book is a history of each election from 1789 through 2020 and recounts a wealth of entertaining tales about campaigns and candidates. At the same time, it delves into the threads that link elections across time and it explores American democracy in a way that helps us to better understand present-day politics. Beyond this, Bob has a diverse range of writing experience. He spent several years early in his career as a journalist for a daily newspaper in Rhode Island and was later the ghostwriter for the New York Times’ bestselling book The Heart-Led Leader by Tommy Spaulding, which was named by Inc. Magazine as one of the Best Business Books of 2015. More
Place_Pub: Baton Rouge, LA: Gideon Books, 1996. First Crown Edition. First? Printing. Wraps. 201 pages. Wraps, illus. Signed by the author. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: Congressional Globe, 1862. Quarto, 960, tables, index, some foxing to text, leather spines & corners quite worn, fr board nearly separated, front flyleaf separated. More
Huntsville, AL: Ellen Ross Publishers, 1993. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Single sheet, printed on both sides. Format is approximately 10.5 inches by 8.5 inches, tri-folded, resulting in six panels--three per side. Color illustration on two of the interior panels. Map and drawing on two of the exterior panels. This brochure is dated as 1993 because of a reference to an exhibit opening in the fall of 1993. The museum relocated in 1997. This has become one of the scarcest of Gone With The Win related items/memorabilia. The museum was housed in The Georgian Terrace. It has, per the brochure, The Rare Books and Manuscript Room, David O. Selznick's Screening Room, Main Gallery, Memorial Gallery, Costume Gallery, The Doll Room, The War Exhibit, and (of course) the Museum Shop. Designated as the Official Home of Gone With the Wind, Clayton County offers a glimpse into Margaret Mitchell's classic novel through the Road to Tara Museum. Just 15 miles south of Atlanta, the Road to Tara Museum combines the real history of the Civil War's Atlanta Campaign and Battle of Jonesboro with Margaret Mitchell's and Hollywood's Gone With the Wind. You can tour original movie props and wardrobe items, foreign edition library, original manuscripts, costume reproductions, extensive photo gallery and complete collectible plate and doll collection. History buffs will learn more about Jonesboro's part in the Civil War and the people involved through artifacts and researched personal accounts. The brochure includes a picture of Del Nichols, an artist at work on a GWTW painting and Susan Bagwell of Cave Spring, Georgia. More
New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. First U.S. Edition [stated]. Hardcover. x, 273, [5] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Signed and Inscribed by the author on the title page. Signature under author's printed name. Below which is the inscription: For Susie, With best wishes, Bob Oct. 15, 2014. Includes Introduction, Acknowledgments, Notes, Selected Bibliography, and Index. Chapters cover "A Craving for Light"; "This Great National Map;' 'In Daguerreotypes...We Beat the World," "Large Copies from Small Originals"; "Startling Likenesses of the Great"; "Wonderful Strangers"; "Last Place...to See the Nation Whole"; "Illustrations of Camp Life"; "A Continuous Roll of Musketry"; "More Eloquent Than the Sternest Speech"; "The Terrible Reality and Earnestness of War"; "Brady and the Lilliputians"; "Rebel Invasion"; "That Memorable Campaign"; "The Ball Has Opened"; "A Photographic Pantheon"; "Familiar as Household Words"; and "The Stings of Poverty". Wilson's 2013 book, Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation, is a biography of the pioneer photographer Mathew Brady. Reviewers noted the difficulties of writing a biography of Brady, about whom many details are unknown. Washington Post reviewer Michael Ruane thought the book's best aspect was "its fascinating account of how the business of photography worked in the mid-19th century", and The Economist similarly commented that the book was "more a portrait of an age than of a man". He also wrote The Explorer King: Adventure, Science, and the Great Diamond Hoax; Clarence King in the Old West, about the flamboyant 19th century geologist Clarence King, who was the first director of the U. S. Geological Survey. More
New York: Harper, 2015. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 494, [4] pages. Includes Endpaper Maps, Author's Note and Acknowledgments, Illustrations. Cast of Characters, Notes, Bibliography, and Illustration Credits. Some scuffing to rear cover. Inscribed and signed on the title page by the author, Cokie Roberts. The inscription reads "To Carole--Cokie Roberts." The author introduces the resilient and remarkable women who remained in Washington, DC after the declaration of secession, chronicling their experiences during this momentous period, and the transformation of a Southern society town into a center of national power, activism, and change. She fills in blanks and adds substance, detail, and dimension to what until now has seemed an utterly masculine mythology. More