Philadelphia: Printed for P. Byrne, 1807. Two volumes. 22cm. x, (2), 256pp.; xxii, 496pp. (64) indexes. Full brown leather with rules and gilt stamped red leather labels on spines. Front joint at head of volume one starting about 2 in., some general wear to both volumes, some overall age toning...
Chicago, Ills. Thomas G. Newman & Son, 923 & 925 West Madison Street, 1889. 20cm. 163pp., errata, (13) ads. Purple pebbled embossed cloth with a gilt (queen) bee on front cover. Gilt title and author stamped on spine. A bit of fading to fine, else a very good copy. Bookplate...
New York: Reprinted by Rudd. &Carleton, 1861. 19cm. 2 vols. bound as one. xv, 392pp., (2) ads. Brown embossed cloth. Cloth worn on spine ends and edges. Previous owner's signature on pastedown.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company Inc. under the auspices of the National Sculptor Society, (1947). 17cm. Black cloth spine with illustrated paper boards. 63pp., numerous illus. General wear to covers and spine. Inscribed by the artist Wheeler Williams to Mary & George Plimpton. Tipped in at rear is...
Boston: Published by Samuel T. Armstrong, 50, Cornhill, and Crocker & Brewster and by John P. Haven, New York, 1821. 15 cm. Frontis., 70pp. Gray paper boards, with black leather spine (rubbed) with gilt rules and title. A religious teaching tale of sorts. A good Scottish lad goes off to...
Philadelphia,(PA): Published by John Conrad & Co., James Maxwell, printer, 1816. 15cm. Frontis. of Brian Borhoime. 126pp. Original beige paper spine with blue paper boards. Paper spine eroded, slight tear to frontis on lower interior edge, else very good. A variant printing from this publisher in this year, the other...
[Washington, DC?]: np, nd [1891?]. First edition (reprinted by Burke in Macon, Georgia, in 1912). 8vo. 131, 90, (1) pp. Arranged in two listings, alphabetically and by regiment or battalion. Civil War historian Bell I. Wiley's copy, with his ownership signature on the front endpaper; a previous bookseller has noted...
New York: Watchman Publishing Co., 1866. "Second thousand". 12mo. 257, (4, ads) pp. Howes S-832. Nevins II, p. 240: "Useful observations by an intelligent and discerning woman." Dornbusch III, 2400. In Tall Cotton 172. Nicholson, p. 94. Thornton 13161. Several signatures somewhat pulled, persistent light foxing, but a good solid...
Washington, (DC): GPO, 1885. The first appearance in print of Mrs. Ward's "Testimony," Volume IV -- Testimony (this volume only) of the complete five volume set. 8vo. (2), 857 pp. The "testimony," taken in Birmingham, of Mrs. Margaret Ketcham Ward, first appears in this volume of the "Report of the...
Jackson, TN: McCowat-Mercer Press, 1956. Reprint of the 1909 original, with new material, the "Rebel Shavetail Edition," signed by the editor. 8vo. xxviii, 138 pp. Illustrated from photographs, drawings, portraits, etc., plates. Howes W-642: "Reminiscences by a member of the 19th Virginia Infantry." Nevins I, p. 181: "The direct and...
Charlottesville, VA: Michie Co., Printers, 1909. First edition. 12mo. vii, 107 pp. Howes W-642: "Reminiscences by a member of the 19th Virginia Infantry." Nevins I, p. 181: "The direct and poignant recollections of a yeoman who worked up through the ranks and became an officer in the 19th Virginia." Dornbusch...
New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1916. First edition. 8vo. 432 pp. Portrait plates of the author, one from 1861, the other from 1915. Howes W-591. Dornbusch III, 1425. Not in Nicholson. Owner's name on endpaper, else very good. Original red cloth (a little rubbed at the extremities), gilt spine title. (9988).
Richmond, VA: Presbyterian Committee of Publications, 1891. First edition. 8vo. 284 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the elder White who served as pastor of the Lexington Presbyterian Church, 1848-1867, with Stonewall Jackson a regular among his congregation; the two long pre-war chapters include anecdotes concerning Jackson and two other chapters cover...
Leesburg, VA: "The Washingtonian" Print, [1902]. First edition. 8vo. 24 pp. Portrait frontispiece of the author, folding map of the battlefield in Louden County, Virginia, on the Potomac. Early Confederate victory, two months after Bull Run; White was serving as an aide to Col. Eppa Hunton, commander of the 8th...
Richmond, VA: Dietz Printing Co., 1933. Second edition ("reprinted from an original copy done ... in 1908"), 1/395 copies (this #367). Small 8vo. xiii, 55 pp. Portrait frontispiece of the author, plates. A photo-facsimile of the original edition, including the author's marginal notes. The author's recollections of life in Richmond...
New York: Bonnell, Silver & Bowers, 1904. Second edition, first under this title, containing a map not present in the earlier edition. 8vo. (2), 563 pp. Portrait frontispiece of Sheridan, plate from a wood engraving, folding map. Nevins I, p. 46: "A modest personal narrative of the Appomattox campaign, by...
Winchester, VA: Printed by the Eddy Press, 1907. First edition. 8vo. xii, 211 pp. Frontispiece portrait from a painting of Ashby in military dress astride his horse. Ashby (1828-1862), a planter in northern Virginia untrained in military matters, quickly showed his mettle in the early months of the war, and...
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1878. Reprint (first published the previous year). 8vo. 199 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Lee (tissue guard foxed). Howes T-74. Nevins I, p. 167: "A basic, valuable source on the character of Lee and the strength of the Army of Northern Virginia." Dornbusch II, 2961...
Lynchburg, VA: J. P. Bell Co., 1912. First edition. 8vo. 277 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, frontispiece portrait of the author, view's of the institution's buildings and grounds. Includes several chapters on the institution during the war, and lists of the Boards of Visitors and faculty members. Cover title: "History...
New York: C. G. Crawford, 1891. First edition. 8vo. 202 pp. Maps, facsimiles. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper to E. J. Quirk, a contractor who worked on engineering projects with Robert E. Lee in New York in the 1840s (Washington and Lee holds an 1866 letter from...
New York: C. G. Crawford, 1891. First edition. 8vo. 202 pp. Maps, facsimiles. Inscribed at the head of the title page "from the author" and in the same hand "G. Peyton / Univ. of Va." Moses Green Peyton (1828-1897) was a staff officer in the Army of Northern Virginia during...
New York: Atlantic Publishing and Engraving Co., 1884. Second edition (same year as the first). 8vo. 381 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author, three folding maps. Nevins I, p. 160: "Smith was a failure as a general; this work is largely a rationalization for shortcomings at Seven Pines." Dornbusch II...
Boston, (MA): Houghton Mifflin, (c1910). Second impression. 8vo. (8), 345 pp. Five maps, two of them double-page. Nevins I, p. 42: "Although the author is at times pompous, rambling, and lyrical, still this study remains a work of some merit." Nicholson, p. 760. Some soiling, but a very good copy...
Baltimore, (MD): Kelly, Piet & Co., 1870. First edition. 8vo. 312 pp. Includes a unit roster. With the bookplate of the Mary De Renne Confederate Collection on the front pastedown; the wife of G. W. J. De Renne of Wormsloe, near Savannah, Georgia, Mary De Renne (1835-1887), "during the last...
Nashville, TN: Printed for the author, 1905. First edition. Small 8vo. 133 pp. Illustrated from photographs, frontispiece portrait of the author who served in the 1st Tennessee Infantry. Nevins I, p. 169: "A light, chatty memoir of service in both major theaters; unique illustrations enhance the slim volume." Dornbusch 998...
