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From back cover: "Kirby Ross successfully walks the fine line between faithfully repeating the guerrilla's words while backing up his own annotations with solid facts from a wide variety of sources."Book - Fine condition. Clean and tight except for very light age spotting on page edges when book is closed. Please see photos.Dust Jacket - Fine condition. Very minimal rubbing and edge/corner wear. Please see photos. 276 pages including Index.

From front DJ flap: "It is not commonly known that during several periods in his life President Harry S. Truman took pen in hand to record reminiscences of his childhood, military service and early political career. These reminiscences...as well a other shorter accounts have been thoughtfully pieced together into one continuous narrative by historian Robert H. Ferrell."
"This is a warm, friendly and inspiring story of how a farmboy from Grandview, Missouri just happened to become president of the United States. But according to Ferrell, the Autobiography has another aspect worth stressing - that "because it is based entirely on manuscript material in the president's hand...There can be no doubt that the Autobiography is Harry S. Truman himself."
This copy includes a letter copy from Charles S. Murphy, President, Harry S. Truman Library Institute. The book includes some black and white photos
Book - Very Good condition. Natural and navy cloth over boards with gold gilt text on spine. Some edge wear,… Read More

Originally published in 1888, reprinted in 1995 by Applewood Books.This book is a reminiscence of daily life on a Southern plantation during the Civil War. It is filled with vivid details of everything from methods of making dyes and preparing foods to race relations and the effects of the war. Very Good condition. Light soiling visible on back (non-coated) cover. Some bumping to top and bottom edges of cover on back. Clean and very tight. No spine creases. Please see photos.176 pages.

From back cover: "This journal records the Civil War experiences of a sensitive, well-educated, young southern woman. Kate Stone was twenty when the war began, living with her widowed mother, five brothers, and younger sister at Brokenburn, their plantation home in north-eastern Louisiana." In her journals, she reveals a way of life that is no more: books read, plantation management, maintaining slaves, and more. Very Good condition. Very light rubbing/bumping to covers, very minimal edge/corner wear. A couple spots on closed book page edges, but otherwise clean and tight. Please see photos. 400 pages including Index.

From back cover: "As a baby he flipped himself upside down in his jolly jumper. As a kid he rode his Big Wheel into traffic. When he discovered skateboarding, his life was changed forever." A story about his road to success.New book. Clean. Tight. Includes photographs. 159 pages.

Longstreet's memoirs of the Civil War in America. Reprint Edition. Illustrated with plates, maps, portraits, and engravings. Book - Fine condition. Some age spotting, otherwise clean and tight. Please see photos. Dust Jacket - Fine condition. No edge or corner wear. Looks like new. Please see photos. 690 pages including Index. Large book - may require some additional postage.

From the back cover: "At last, one of the most dramatic and significant events in modern American history - President Truman's dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur from command of UN forces in Korea in April 1951 - gets the dramatic and significant account it deserves, from a master historian. Characters great and small sprint to life as Brands's narrative builds to the shattering climax - one that makes us wonder about challenges of military versus civilian leadership we still face today." - Arthur Herman, author of Douglas MacArthur: American WarriorBlack paper covers over boards, gold gilt text on spine. End papers have black and white maps. There is a middle section in the book with black & white photos. I have labeled both the book and dust jacket as being in Fine condition. They both look new. No edge or corner wear. Clean and tight.437 pages including Index.

Quote from back cover: "This superb autobiography by the man Eisenhower called the greatest field general of World War II is full of surprises....Widely remembered as a great but close-mouthed military leader, Bradley is startlingly outspoken in these pages....He is hard on Eisenhower for submitting to British demands during the campaigns in North Africa and Sicily, and for allowing Montgomery...to intimidate him. He paints a vivid portrait of George Patton....Bradley was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Korean War, and his detailed account of MacArthur's high-handed, almost aberrant behavior in November-December, 1950, sheds new light on that contretemps." - Publishers Weekly
Very Good- condition. Covers have some rubbing/bumping and a little edge/corner wear. There is a small random piece of tape on the back cover. Text is clean and binding is tight.
752 pages including Index.

From back cover: "This is one of the richest collections of Civil War letters I have seen. I doubt if any collection surpasses it. Fisk is intelligent and thoughtful. He writes well and the prose is still accessible to a late twentieth-century reader. He successfully presents the minutiae of soldier life - marching, food, picketing, pay, battles - while also explicating the issues behind the war." - Reed Mitchell Fine condition. Both book and dust jacket look like new. No edge/corner wear. Clean and tight. Please see photos. 383 pages including Index.

Autobiography of the humorist Oscar Ameringer. Originally published in 1940 by Henry Holt and Company. This reprint, 2005. From Foreward by Carl Sandburg: "I have seen him in Milwaukee and Chicago, taking the platform in a crowded, smoke-filled hall, facing rows of somber and sober-faced workingmen, talking to them about their troubles, about woe and injustice and inequalities, drawing contrasts, soon bringing smiles to the faces and finally roars of laughter. ... Yet he is more often a man on fire over the injustice between man and man, over the chaos and darkness of so many human fates where he cannot be a silent witness,..."Fine condition except very minimal bottom corner wear and a few brown spots on bottom page edges. Otherwise clean and tight. No spine creases. Almost like new. Please see photos. 476 pages including Index.

This book describes Heston's life - from a shy, insecure child, to successes in film stage and television. Inscribed by the author in blue marker on title page. Two sections of black & white photographs. 592 pages.Book condition: Very Good, except for spotting on page edges. Previous owner's name inscribed on endpaper. Dust Jacket condition: Very Good+, no edge or corner wear.

Originally published by Reed Publishing Company in 1903. Two Trails Publishing mad additions and corrections in 1999, and reprinted with additional corrections and changes in 2004. Publishers Note: "Whie the author has only been able, with the limited space at his command, to give a rough sketch of these notes lives of outlawry, he has, unconsciously, perhaps, presented a character study of those troublous times during and after the war which made and unmade men. Whether it was his intention or not, he has shown that war is not a garment to be lightly put on or off, for across the souls of most of these men it plowed deep, dar furrows which left their lasting scars."Fine condition. Looks like new. Cover and pages are clean and tight with no edge or corner wear. Please see photos. 199 pages including Index.

From back cover: "The best and most accurate first-person account of the long-overlooked western border war of 1863....[It] contributes to a richer understanding of the Civil War by establishing links between developments in the trans-Mississippi and events in the East." - Phillip T. Tucker. Fine condition except for light corner wear. Very minimal edge wear. Clean. Tight. Please see photos. 458 pages.

From Introduction: "Oley Kohlman is an authentic product of the cattle country of northern Colorado... He calls himself a cow disturber. ...your purse-lipped old English teacher would not have approved..." Stories - no sources named to protect their children and grandchildren. Social history between Greeley and Cheyenne.Includes illustrations.Very Good condition. Soft crease on bottom front corner and back top corner. Some rubbing/bumping. Clean and tight. 66 pages.

From the Editor's Preface: "...you will find Herbert Hoover writing not as a former President, but as a former Boy. It is a role which suits him well. He has always loved the memory of his own boyhood, with a grave, affectionate, and wisely humorous regard for all boys and girls who are engaged in the serious business of growing up."
In his career, he labored to feed hundreds of millions of hungry children after two World Wars, he called the famous White House Conference on Child Health and Protection in 1930, and was involved in the Boys' Clubs of America.
Good condition. Black cloth over boards with faded gold gilt signature on front and text on spine. Covers have rubbing and some wear on bottom (some fraying. There is wear on top, but not as bad. Exlib. End papers are blue with letter samples. Front also has area remaining from where a pocket? used to be. There is also a previous owner's name in ink. Hope Day School stamps. The pages have a stain at the bottom corner throughout most of the book.… Read More

From the front dust jacket flap: "Grant's penetrating and stately work reveals a nobility of spirit and an innate grasp of the important fact that he rarely displayed in private life. His preface explains that he took up this task 'with a sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to anyone, whether on the National or the Confederate side'."

Book - Near Fine condition. Orange paper over boards with gold gilt text on spine. Bottom corners are bent in a little. Pages are clean. Binding is tight.
Dust Jacket - Very Good condition. There is a slight crinkle at the top back and a bump to the spine that did not break the paper.
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666 pages.

From page 7: "...Captain Wm. S. Burns...has finally consented to write for The Courier a series of articles giving his personal experiences during the rebellion. He enlisted in 1861, and served three years in the western army."Fine condition. Blue cloth cover with color flag image on front and gold gilt lettering on spine. Beautiful book. Clean and tight. Please see photos. 162 pages including Index.

From back cover: "...the largest collection of annotated and authenticated accounts of slaves ever published in one volume. In them, the slaves of Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Henry Clay, and others speak for themselves about their culture, plantation life, the adequacy of their food, clothing, and shelter, the sexual exploitation of black women, and the psychological response to bondage. The views given are those of house servants and field hands, docile slaves and rebels, urban slaves and rural slaves, slaves with kind maters and those with cruel ones."Very Good+ condition. Very light edge/corner wear and light soiling on page edges. Back cover has soft top corner crease and price sticker. Front cover has a couple light dents. Otherwise clean and tight. Spine is not cracked. Please see photos. 777 pages including Index. This is a thick, heavy book and may require some additional postage.

From back cover: "Louise Wigfall Wright's recollections of the Civil War rank among the most notable Southern memoirs ever published. Her father's status as a Senator led to contacts with several distinguished political and military figures that served the Confederacy during the war. Her family letters reveal much personal insight and changing perspectives on the war as time frayed hopes for the survival of the Confederacy."Fine condition. Very minimal cover wear. Very minimal edge/corner wear. Clean and very tight. Spine not creased. Looks like a new book. Please see photos. 258 pages including Index.

Original edition published by the Press of the Henneberry Company, Chicago, 1903. New material copyright 2000 by the Minnesota Historical Society.On front cover: "Being an Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla Captain and Outlaw, His Capture and Prison Life, and the Only Authentic Account of the Northfield Raid Ever Published" From back cover: "Many may wonder why an old 'guerrilla' should feel called upon at this late day to rehearse the story of his life....I propose to set out the little good that was in my life, at the same time not withholding in any way the bad." - Cole Younger Fine condition. Very minimal bumping to cover. Very minimal edge/corner wear. Clean and tight. Looks like new. Please see photos. 126 pages.