Japan: Daito Art Printing Co., Ltd., [1969]. First edition. Oblong octavo. Cloth boards with gilt-stamped front board; unpaginated [62] pp.; photographs, some color. Owner's name, Joe Woods, to front endpaper. Woods was on the Cruisebook staff as an artist and photographer. A Fine copy. The USS Mount Katmai, named for... More
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1969. First edition. Octavo; marbled wrappers printed in red; vii, 123 pp. A collection of letters from middle and upper middle class denizens of Athens to their loved ones fighting for the Confederacy. Very slight wear to wrapper edges, but Near Fine. More
Deerfield Beach, FL: Betty Bugbee Cusack. Limited ed. 4to.; glossy, photo-illustrated wrappers, 112 pp., facsimile documents. One of 500 copies. A collection of documents and correspondence related to the debt owed by the federal government to Massachusetts for services rendered during the Civil War. Assembled by Massachusetts businessman, William C.... More
Leesburg, Virginia: Civil War Centennial Commission of Loudoun County, Commonwealth of Virginia, 1961. First edition. Octavo; perfectbound, illustrated wrappers; 80 pp.; maps, illustrations, photographs. A book commissioned by the Civil War Centennial Commission of Loudon County as a Civil War guidebook to the County and in celebration of the state’s... More
Lawrence, Kansas: The University of Kansas Libraries, 1962. Octavo; plain, stapled wrappers; 57 pp.; frontispiece of Fraser, one illustration. A long introduction contextualizing Col. Fraser's imprisonment at C.S.M Prison in Columbia before reprinting his petition. Some light foxing to wrappers, but about Near Fine. More
Wendell, North Carolina: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1984. First edition. 4to; perfectbound wrappers, ix, 195 pp, photographs. The letters of Iowan George Sidenbender Richardson to family and friends throughout the course of the Civil War. A Fine copy. More
Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Bookshop, 1981. First edition. Tall 4to.; grey cloth boards; 96 pp. The author has performed a thankless task in assembling the names of 3,872 Confederate Northern Virginia soldiers killed at Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, which he estimates is approximately 85% complete. Tables at the front tabulate by... More
Gettysburg Compiler Print, ©1906. 12mo.; red pictorial wrappers printed in black; 95, [11] pp.; plates. A well-preserved copy of a title usually seen in shabby condition. The author provides an account of the Battle of Gettysburg and situates it within the great battles of modern times. Presumably published to capitalize... More
Raleigh: The North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission, [ca. 1961]. First edition. 4to.; side-stapled wrappers with linen tape along spine as issued; 4, 43, 30, 7, [1] pp. Some browning to covers, else a clean and tight copy. Organized into four sections: I. Numerical Designations of Confederate Organizations; II. Local Designations... More
West Point, New York: United States Military Academy, 1979. First edition. Octavo; stapled, illustrated wrappers; 62 pp.; illustrations, photographs. An interesting history of the French Zouaves with a special consideration of their uniforms and accoutrements. A Near Fine copy with mailing label to rear wrapper. More
n.p.: [The Office], 1960. First edition. Six corner-stapled, mimeographed sheets (8 ½” x 11”), 10 pp. A couple of faint droplets to the top of cover sheet, light wear, but about Near Fine. One copy in OCLC at Univ. of Utah. “This Fact Sheet reviews the background and events of the..... More
Port Huron, Michigan: Antique Ordnance Publishers, 1982. Reprint. 4to.; stapled, glossy wrappers, 22, [2] pp., illus. A facsimile reprint of the 1856 report documenting the metals used for the manufacture of cannons. Includes tables and diagrams. Light rubbing and wear to wrappers. We find no other copies of this facsimile... More
[Pennsylvania]: Hon. Daniel H. Hastings, 1898. First edition. One leaf folded to make two pages; illustration. Some grubbiness and soiling, still Very Good. A warning written for soldiers about the poisonous Manchineal tree, which grows along the Sea Shore in Cuba, and the West India Islands. The author describes the... More
New York: Duffield & Company, 1929. First American edition. 12mo (19.5 cm); blue cloth boards, 288 pp, photo frontispiece of Haig + seven photographic plates, dust jacket. A biography of Field Marshall, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928), by his personal orderly, Sergeant Secrett. Boards slightly cocked; some light dust-soiling... More
Southern University Press, 1969. Second printing. 8vo.; perfect-bound wrappers, iv, [2], 51 pp., maps, photographs, illustrations. Charles O’Connell’s journal is the “story of his wartime service on the famed Confederate ram ‘Tennessee’ and his imprisonment after her capture at the Battle of Mobile Bay.” Private Charles Brother’s journal concerns his..... More
New York: Samuel T. Callahan, Printer. Printed wrappers; 16 pp. Although in its original wrappers, this copy appears to have one time been bound and then disbound, perhaps by a library, as erasure and sticker residue to front wrapper indicate. Congressman Stanton (1814-1894) provides “a very imperfect sketch of the... More
Washington, D. C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, [1963]. 4to; side-stapled wrappers, v, 135 pp, illus. Government publication, FMFM-21, one of a series of Fleet Marine Force Manuals, which presents “the tactics and techniques utilized by Marine Corps landing forces against guerrilla forces and to serve as a basic text for... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944. First edition. Octavo. Rust-colored cloth lettered in white to spine; map endpapers; 434 pp.; dust jacket. A political analysis of America's role as a superpower and the need to permanently maintain bases throughout the world. By the novelist, playwright and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist... More
Atlanta: Atlanta Historical Society, 1979. 4to.; perfect-bound, illustrated wrappers, 149 pp., illus. A special issue of “The Atlanta Historical Bulletin” on the personal perspective of Atlanta in the Civil War, which was also a major 1979 exhibition of the Atlanta Historical Society. Includes, “Life at the Crossroads of the Confederacy... More