Search Results: Civil War from Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books

Cincinnati:: The Robert Clarke Company,, 1897.. First edition.. publisher's red pictorial cloth.. Slightest of creasing at the extremities of the spine; a very nice copy. . 8vo,. Illustrated by L. T. Dickinson of Chattanooga.. Howes D-346.

Philadelphia:: Printed for Gratuitous Disctibution,, 1863.. First edition.. publisher's illustrated printed tan wrappers.. Slight vertical crease; near fine.. 8vo,.

Philadelphia:: Printed for Gratuitous Disctibution,, 1863.. First edition.. publisher's illustrated printed cream-colored wrappers.. Some tiny spots and light stains to wrappers; some slight creasing to text.. 8vo,.

New York:: Harcourt, Brace & Company, , [1940].. Fourth printing, September, 1940.. publisher’s cloth, lacking the publisher's slipcase.. Slight tanning to endsheets and very slightest of sunning to spines; all volumes tight and sound.. 8vo,. With 426 half-tones of photographs, and 244 cuts of cartoons, letters, documents.. Signed and inscribed "with respect and good wishes" by Carl Sandburg, 1944.

New York:: Harcourt, Brace & Company, , [1939].. First trade edition.. publisher’s cloth, in publisher’s two-part box with text on top panel.. Slight bumps to the corners of Vols. I and IV; otherwise a fine set in lightly rubbed box. . 8vo,. With 414 half-tones of photographs, and 249 cuts of cartoons, letters, documents.

New York:: Brentano's,, 1916.. First edition.. publisher's mauve gilt-lettered cloth, t.e.g., in dust jacket.. A bright, very near fine copy in a dust-soiled jacket with one short tear and a few tiny chips.. 8vo,. A large presentation inscription by LaSalle Corbell Pickett fills the entire front pastedown.

Augusta, Ga.": Chronicle Printing Establishment,, 1883.. publisher's printed wrappers.. Wrappers detached and split at the spine; light vertical crease.. 8vo,. With a contemporary inscription (to the Essex Institute) at the head of the front wrapper; ex-library.

New York:: D. Appleton & Company,, 1866.. First edition.. full sheep with black gilt-lettered spine labels. . Light scuffing to the binding; tight and sound.. 8vo,. Frontispiece portrait of Abraham Lincoln; maps..

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin Company,, [1951].. Seventh printing.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. A fine copy in a price-clipped illustrated jacket with some slight rubbing at extremities and two very short closed tears.. 8vo,. Illustrated by Lynd Ward.. Signed by Lynd Ward on the title page.

Camp near Brooks Station,, Saturday April 11, 1863.. Fine original condition.. 15-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches.. "...Yesterday I witnessed one of the grandest sights that I ever beheld. Our whole corps was reviewed by the President, Generals Hooker, McLain, Howard, Steinway, Secretary Seward and an innumerable host of Brigadier Generals, and it was a sight that has paid me for coming to war." The spectacle is described in great detail. Private Penfield was soon to be captured at Chancellorsville, spending 12 days as a prisoner of war before being exchanged. He survived the war to carry on his father's carriage making business in Monroe, Connecticut and later founded a small private academy.

Crockett, Houston Co., Texas,, Feb. 17th, 1866.. The writer laments "the wreck of his affairs," loss of his crops and library "and even the negroes" and hopes for news of a mutual friend; with the recipient's notation on the envelope, "ratifying sale of land because I wrote him the facts & he orders a sale of the articles reserved from sale." .

Hartford, Conn.:: Dustin, Gilman & Co.,, 1875.. publisher's green cloth stamped in gold and black.. 19th c. bookplate; a little shaken; light wear to cloth at extremities.. 8vo,. Frontispiece portrait; illustrated from engravings..

Hartford, Conn.:: Dustin, Gilman & Co.,, 1875.. publisher's green decorated cloth.. Old ink ownership signatures in ink and pencil on pastedown; light wear to the cloth; tight and sound.. 8vo,. Illustrated..

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1933.. First edition.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. Cloth spotted and slightly shaken; dust jacket chipped and worn.. 8vo,. Inscribed by Hamilton Basso to his wife. Laid in is an autograph letter signed by Hamilton Basso, and a photocopy and transcript of a Beauregard letter.

Exeter,: Samuel Hall,, 1862.. First edition.. original printed wrappers enclosed in a custom cloth folding box.. Some light creasing and use to the wrappers and text; but very nice.. 8vo,.

New York:: Fords, Howard & Hulbert,, 1884.. Early edition (the first appeared in 1882). . publisher's red decorated cloth.. A fine bright copy.. 8vo,. Engraved illustrations.

Washington:: The National Tribune,, 1885.. publisher's cloth.. Somewhat shaken and cocked; rear hinge cracked but sound; cloth rubbed at extremities.. 8vo,. Illustrated from engravings..

Norwalk, Connecticut:: The Easton Press,, [1996].. Collector's Edition . publisher's gilt full leather, a.e.g.; in the publisher's shrinkwrap.. A fine copy.. 8vo,. Publisher's flyer laid in. The Easton Press Leather-bound Library of The Civil War.

[Vega, Texas:: J. P. Burch,, 1923].. First edition.. publisher's gilt red cloth in dust jacket.. Slight bumping at corners; otherwise a fine copy in a jacket with a few tiny chips.. Small 8vo,.

Lowell [Massachusetts],, July 18th, 1862.. Horizontal creases where folded; light soiling.. Folio.. The text indicates that Benjamin Cherrill agreed to enlist the undersigned 21 men into the service of the country on condition that an additional bounty of twenty five dollars be paid to him by his friends. Next to each name is the amount subscribed, $1 or $2.