Scribner, 1982. Full-leather book in Very Fine Condition. Gilt-edged pages with brass-die stamping. This gorgeous, abridged version of Freeman's 1935 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert E. Lee has long been acclaimed for both its meticulousness and readability.
New York: Crown, 2024. From the author of The Devil in the White City and In the Garden of Beasts this is the history of the attack on Fort Sumter that sparked the American Civil War. Told from the perspective of those involved, from minor soldiers to President Lincoln, this.....
UP of Mississippi. First edition, first printing. Very Fine condition in Like DJ. Signed by Barbour on title page. Clean and unmarked. In this book, former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour details the buildup and response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina along the state's southern coast. Featured are interviews.....
Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1993. At 368 pages this large format (13.25 x 10) volume title is truly a treasure. With full color illustrations and excerpts covering the period from 1539 to modern times. Some of the varied authors included are: Frederick Douglass, Alexis de Tocqueville, Margaret Walker Alexander.....
Knopf, 2017. Advanced Reader Copy of Omar El Akkad's debut novel American War, selected on the BBC's list for "100 of the most influential English-language novels published in the past 300 years" (CBC Books). Signed by the author on the title page. 2074 through 2095: The Second American Civil.....