CATTON BruceMareMagnum
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3 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with numerous maps coloured in outline and endpaper maps; cloth (blue/red/red respectively), gilt backs, a very good clean set in dustwrapper. Catton's universally acclaimed Centennial History comprises The Coming Fury (1966), Terrible Swift Sword (1963) and Never Call Retreat (1966). COMPLETE SETS OF THE UK EDITION ARE SCARCE.
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.
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.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, the smallest of marks to lower page edges, slight rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with faint creasing to upper edge and spine foot. 394pp. Detailed study of American medicine and surgery in the 1860s and how it affected the American Civil War. Very scarce in the UK.
A celebration of the tercentenary of the Bank of Scotland by the Chief Archivist Alan Cameron - before we had all heard the phrase 'sub-prime'. Dust jacket has tear at top back. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries
Sm. folio, First Edition, with photographic title-spread and very numerous photographs, illustrations and digrams throughout; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
857Albany and New York: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. 1896. 1st edition. Pages 1059 pp.8vo. Blue cloth binding. 1st edition. Brief biographies of each soldier who served in these units in alphabetical order. Covers soiled corners bumped and worn. Still in good condition with tight text block. Assembly member�s stamp on front paste down. Albany and New York: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. 1896. hardcover
8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with endpaper maps; brown cloth, upper board with decorative frame border enclosing eagle in cartouche all in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, brown silk marker, fore-edges lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and illustrations in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
186843994Philadelphia; Cincinnati; Atlanta .: National Publishing Company 1868. 8vo. 23.2cm First Edition in 2 volumes 654 & xii5-827pp. plus engraved frontis view & 15 engraved portrait plates 1 plate being A Sketch of the Battleground of Manassas; And 3 facsimiles letters from Abraham Lincoln to Stephens on 6 page contemporary style half brown polished calf gilt ruled raised bands double crushed morocco black labels gilt titles and tan fine grain linen boards former owner's name of both title pages faint damp stain on the frontis portrait of Stephens otherwise in fine sound condition. fine. A contemporary account of the American Civil War by the former vice president of the Confederate States of America published in book form 1868-1870.Howes S-938: "Most elaborate - and best - argument for the constitutional validity of the doctrine of state sovereignty and the right of secession". ~ The portraits include Jefferson Washington Daniel Webster Andrew Jackson Lincoln Jefferson Davis Robert E. Lee Ulysses S. Grant. and a frontis view of Liberty Hall. National Publishing Company unknown
