The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Vol Set) Fort Sumter to Perryville / Fredericksburg to Meridian / Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote - 1958, 1963, 1974

The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Vol Set) Fort Sumter to Perryville / Fredericksburg to Meridian / Red River to Appomattox
by Shelby Foote

Complete three volume set of the famous Shelby Foote 'The Civil War: A Narrative' with dust jackets. Volumes 1 & 2 are in Very Good condition, Volume 3 Good condition. No marks, highlights or bookplates. None are ex-library, book club or remainder copies.

Volume 1 Fort Sumter to Perryville
Hardcover Cloth 840 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition fourth printing 1958 with corresponding number line. Attractive grey buckram boards with blue blocks and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Grey topstain. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Some bumped corners. A clipped dust jacket smooth and clean is discolored with age with slight shelf wear - wrinkles and chips.

Volume 2 Fredericksburg to Meridian
Hardcover Cloth 988 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition second printing 1963 with corresponding number line. Attractive grey buckram boards with blue blocks and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Grey topstain. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth and clean is discolored with age with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles and chips.

Volume 3 Red River to Appomattox ISBN 0394465121
Hardcover Cloth 1106 pages. Condition Good Dust Jacket Poor. Presumed First edition 1974. Worn grey buckram boards with blue blocks and gilt embossing shows off this tight and sound copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Grey topstain. Notable shelf wear - worn boards and some spotting to edges. An unclipped dust jacket discolored with age with considerable shelf wear - tears, scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Set is heavier than standard book; S&H will be adjusted.

A great reading copy of this famous book set.

Fort Sumter to Perryville
"Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters." -Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News

"Anyone who wants to relive the Civil War, as thousands of Americans apparently do, will go through this volume with pleasure.... Years from now, Foote's monumental narrative most likely will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind." -New York Herald Tribune Book Review

Fredericksburg to Meridian
"This, then, is narrative history-a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition.... The writing is superb...one of the historical and literary achievements of our time." -The Washington Post Book World

"Gettysburg...is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders that I understand, at last, what happened in that battle.... Mr. Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist's skill in directing the reader's attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war, without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be bettered." -Atlantic

Red River to Appomattox
"An unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist." -Walker Percy

"I have never read a better, more vivid, more understandable account of the savage battling between Grant's and Lee's armies."