Search Results: American Civil War from Lord Durham Rare Books (IOBA)

Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1996. 4th. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 4th edition. 7 x 10 inches. xxxiii,[1]-936pp. Gray cloth with gilt lettering. Insides very clean. Near-fine condition. A nice copy.One of the best guides to Civil War Books ever published. Especially helpful for identification of 1st editions and lots of added details on book selection, care and repair. Separate listings by Title and Author with publication dates and valueCompiled by Ann Sterling and Marianne Pair, Stuart Wright ; Edited by Tom Broadfoot.

Macon: The J. W. Burke Company, 1929. 1st. Hard Cover. Near Fine. R.E. Lee states "It is glorious to see such courage in one so young."First edition. 5-1/4 x 8 inches, (12), [13]-180pp. Medium blue cloth with gilt type on spine and front cover, very minor spotting, bit of corner bumping, otherwise a near fine copy. Frontispiece portrait, four other illustrations and a map. John Pelham, a young West Point trained artillery officer in the Confederate Army, was buried in Jacksonville, Ala., on March 31, 1863. Pelham, who had been killed two weeks earlier at the Battle of Kelly's Ford, a relatively minor engagement in Virginia, had been promising and widely respected. None less than Robert E. Lee had remarked, after observing Pelham's skills at the Battle of Fredericksburg, where he used two small cannons to disrupt the entire federal formation for almost an hour. Howes M529.