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Initials to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 303pp. A detailed account of the naval battles of the American Civil War, which, although there has been less coverage of them than of the land battles, were crucial factors in the outcome of the war.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, and illustrations and pedigrees in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and illustrations in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. 312pp. The Civil War was the defining event in American history. For each side, a way of life was gone - destroyed along with the battle-ravaged countryside and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who were never to return. Although the North and South were very different at the start of the war, neither could return to its past. Their experiences are compared in this superb edition, with hundreds of illustrations from the period.
Vg/G (unclipped dj lightly faded on spine and few chips to edges with one small tear tail of spine, clean grey cloth with black titles on spine, a very good square tight bright copy with small patch light browning front free endpaper and ink gift inscription, small crease to corner of one board) quarto unpaginated. Volume 1 in a series of 10 volumes. A substantial volume profusely illustrated in b/w with contemporary photographs.
pp. xxiv, 242 + Portrait Frontis. 12mo. 180mm. Original full cloth binding. Appleton Modern Literature Series to be used as a classroom reader. LIT BX 7
No inscriptions or marks. Tiniest of creases to lower corner of front cover, none to rear or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 96pp. The battle that was the masterpiece of the Confederate commander in the American Civil War, Robert E Lee, when he split his forces under Jubal Early and 'Stonewal' Jackson and beat the Army of the Potomac which was twice its size. Well illustrated and with full descriptions of Orders of Battle.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to edges. 288pp. A study of the Commander of Union Forces in the American Civil War, Ulysses Simpson Grant and his tactics and strategy in the fight against the Confederates. Illustrated.
Book appears in mint unread condition. 279pp. The fascinating story of an American serviceman in the Confederate Army, only allowed to enlist just as Grant's brutal spring 1964 campaign began.
Vg/G (unclipped dj lightly faded on spine and few chips to edges with one small tear tail of spine, clean grey cloth with black titles on spine, a very good square tight bright copy with small patch light browning front free endpaper and ink gift inscription, small crease to corner of one board) quarto unpaginated. Volume 1 in a series of 10 volumes. A substantial volume profusely illustrated in b/w with contemporary photographs.