Search Results: Civil War from First Landing Books & Art

Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2003. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softcover 8vo in very good condition. 726 pages. Inclues: "Exciting accounts of the army's expeditions, battles, and skirmishes; The army's organization and order of battle; Biographic portraits of the key leaders; Military police records of spies and smugglers in occupied areas; Interesting anecdotes and personal experiences".

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1892. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. with an introduction by John C Ropes. Original blue cloth. Tissue guards and 5 colored fould out maps present one 1 inch closed (recent) tear to the Warrenton map. The rest appear ok and the text is clean and bright. No marks or marginala. The front gutter is split with a previous repair attempt. Also the previous owners book plate has beem blacked out, There is a name in pencil on FEP. There is chipping to head and tail of spine. Still over all a Good solid copy of the scarce first edition.537pp including index.

New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1914. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black hardcover with title in gilt on spine. 337pp including index. maps, portraits primarily of Confederat generals and a frontis-piece of Abe Lincoln. The cover is lightly rubbed The book over all is clean and tight..

Harrisburg, PA: Archive Society, 1991. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth hardcover 8vo in very good plus condition. Volume III Part II. Facsimile Reprint Edition from The Century Edition of 1887-1888. Grant-Lee Edition. Many black-and-white illustrations. 753 pages. Marble endpapers. Gold gilt lettering on spine..

New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good soft cover. 433pp including Bibliography and index. Chronicling Robert E. Lee's turnabout from defensive maneuvres to full scale Confederate invasion into Maryland, Priest demonstrates how this tactical change brought about a series of engagements near Sharpsburg, Maryland that came to be known as "The Battle of South Mountain" in which the Federal and Confederate forces struggled fiercely over Union territory. It was here that George B. McClellan, the new Northern commander, led his Army of the Potomac to its first victory over Lee in a furious action that produced one of the war's few successful bayonet charges. Written from the perspective of the front line combatants (and civilian observers), the book recounts the Confederate invasion and the Federal pursuit into Sharpsburg that set the stage for Antietam. From September 5-15, a total of… Read More

Lincolnwood, Illinois: Publications Intl, 2007. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover 12mo in very good condition. 319 pages including 7 chapters: "A House Divided Against Itself", "A Few Remarks", "Like a Stone Wall", "It is Well that War is So Terrible", "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory", "A Sad Day for Us", "In Great Deeds Something Abides", and index. Contains full color illustrations on nearly every page..

Nashvill, TN: Rutledge Hill Press, 2002. Book. New. Soft cover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. You don't have to know much about the Civil War to be familiar with Robert E.Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson, or William Tecumseh Sherman. Bull's-Eyes and Misfires, however, tells the fascinating stories of fifty largelyunknown people who dramatically changed the course of the Civil War by theirheroic efforts or bungling mistakes. Here are the stories of: Col. George Rains who used his skill as a businessman to build agunpowder factory in Augusta, Georgia that was impressive in its efficiency even by modern standards and manufactured nearly three million pounds of powder. TheConfederacy lacked many things, but gunpowder was not one of them. Confederate Maj. John Barry ordered the volley that wounded (and eventually killed) Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorsville. One can only speculatehow the outcome of the War might have been different had Barry not accidentally shot… Read More

Campbell, California: Savas Woodbury Publishers, 1992. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softcover 8vo in very good plus condition. Slight orange speckling on fore edge. 188 pages including editors' note, introduction by Richard M. McMurry, and index. Contains many maps and black and white illustrations..

Richmond, VA: Richmond Press, Inc, 1915. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Sold for the Benefit of the Associated Charities of Richmond, VA. The original softcover pamphlet with the title printed in black on front cover. bound in an archival harcover with thr title in gilt on the spine Illustrated with a few b/w plates of newspaper lithographs of disasters at the courthouse in Richmond and other related events. 46pp clean and tight.

Chapell Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good Hardcover in a Very Good dust jacket, now in a protective mylar cover. Chancellorsville was a remarkable victory for Robert E. Lee's troops, a fact that had enormous psychological importance for both sides, which had met recently at Fredericksburg and would meet again at Gettysburg in just two months. But the achievement, while stunning, came at an enormous cost: more than 13,000 Confederates became casualties, including Stonewall Jackson, who was wounded by friendly fire and died several days later..

New York: Knopf, 1992. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very good condition, jacket near fine condition, 405pp including index, sources, notes for chapters, and appendix. very small spotting on top edge, For 130 years historians and military strategists have been obsessed by the battle of Chancellorsville. It began with an audaciously planned stroke by Union general Joe Hooker as he sent his army across the Rappahannock River and around Robert E. Lee s lines. It ended with that same army fleeing back in near total disarray--and Hooker s reputation in ruins. 16 pages of illustrations.

Chesapeake, VA: Norfolk County Historical Society of Chesapeake, 1983. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Civil War Journal of Katie Darling Wallace. Grey softcover. Title in black. 110pp plus 5 pages of an index. Illustrated with b/w vintage photographs and portraits. There is a previous owner's name ad date on FEP.

New York: Castle Books, 1965. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 360 pp including index, wonderful black and white illustrations and photos fill every page, some shelf wear along dust jacket edges, price clipped, clean bright interior, "Arms, Uniforms, and Equipment of the Union and Confederacy".

U.S.A.: Knopf, 1990. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. Illustrated. 4to. Knopf 1990. 426 pp. including index. Illustrated dustjacket included. Not price clipped..

U.S.A.: Presidio Press, 1978. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author.Hardcover. 8vo. Presidio Press 1978. 218 pp. including index. Illustrated dustjacket included. Worn and sunned. Price clipped..

United States of America: Avonelle Associates, 1981. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Historical fiction novel about the American Civil War..

Summerville, Sc: Junior History Press, 2004. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 79 pages; "this book tells the story of the confederate submarine hunley. it became the world's first successful submarine when it sank the federal ship uss housatonic outside of the harbor of charleston, south carolina during the civil war. the sinking was a bitter victory because the hunley and its crew were lost. the submarine was lost for 131 years until it was found in 1995. the sub was raised in august, 2000 and is now undergoing examination and preervation at the former charleston naval shipyard..." (author) the material in this book relates to the finding, recovery, and preservation of the submarine, includes maps and a glossary to identify major places, terms, and individuals in the story of the hunley.

Boston: AtheneaumBoston, 1917. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. maps, music, and miscellaneous matter printed in the South duringthe Confederacy, now in the Boston Athenaeum. Printd from the Income of the Robert Charles Billings Fund. Blue linen hardcover with a Title and emblem stamped in Gilt. 213pp including index. Very good copy with an attractive contemporary bookplale of a prominate Richmond resident and his name on FEP. Fore-edge untrimmed and TEG..

Austin: Capital Printing Company, 1971. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. previous owner's name (old Richmond family) on front free end paper, This book offers insight into Southern Urban life during the Civil War and is a sginificant interpretation of the Confederate period, 215pp, plus index.

U.S.A.: Louisiana State University Press, 1981. Book. As New. Paperback. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softcover. 8vo. Louisiana State University Press 1981. 201 pp. including index. maybe 2 copies.