GENERALS OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY 1861~1865 [~ MILITARY RECORDS OF GENERAL OFFICERS OF THE Confederate States of America: COMMANDER~IN~CHIEF, GENERALS, LIEUTENANT GENERALS AND MAJOR GENERALS, Arranged in order of their rank, with their military records in the Confederate Army and previous records in the United States Army, of all those who graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point or were appointed from civil life ~ WITH ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT PORTRAITS MOST OF WHICH ARE NOW PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME ETCHED OR ENGRAVED ON COPPER OR STEEL. COMPILED AND ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES B. HALL ~ A FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION ]

Hall, Charles B.

Edité par Austin TX. 1963 . The Steck Company Publishers ~ facsimile reproduction of the 1898 original.

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large blue & gilt decorative faux leather, "leatherette" cloth hardcover ~ 2º (folio ~ 9"x12") in a slipcase (slide out box). no dustwrapper (as issued). large "coffee table" book, international or priority shipping will cost extra. vg+ / near fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. foxspots on the top & foredge. a number is inked at the bottom of the title pg. (6864), otherwise contents free of markings. slipcase in good cond. rubbed, smudged, one corner cracked. nice vintage copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, no underlining, no remainder markings. first printing (nap) of this facsimile reprint edition. red ink page borders. xiii+110p. b&w portraits throughout. index of names. biography. american history. american civil war. confederate states of america. ~ "THOUGH a number of books with the biographies and portraits of Confederate generals have been published since the close of the Civil War, Hall's volume is one of the harder ones to locate and always brings a premium when it is sold. A check of auction records for the last twenty years shows that only one has appeared at a public sale. To see one offered in a dealer's catalog is quite unusual. Among the last shown was one in an Eastern dealer's recent catalog at $100. It was a rebound copy and not in the original binding. Mr. Wright Howse in his U.S.iana lists the book as "obtainable only with considerable difficulty at prices ranging between $100 and $300." The copy used for this facsimile edition was a rebound copy that had been purchased originally in 1904 for $35 and bound in England the following year at a price of $10. William F. Kelleher, the well~known and distinguished authority on Americana from Cliffside Park, New Jersey, has this to say about the Hall: "This has become very scarce. Possibly the original issue was a comparatively small one, but for whatever the reason, in the past two decades the series has become virtually unfindable." For this reason, it is not surprising that many collectors and Civil War buffs are not even aware of the existence of Hall's collection of portraits of Confederate generals. The original edition was not published in book form. It was done as a series of portraits which were etched or engraved on separate sheets of white paper.

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• Titre: GENERALS OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY 1861~1865 [~ MILITARY RECORDS OF GENERAL OFFICERS OF THE Confederate States of America: COMMANDER~IN~CHIEF, GENERALS, LIEUTENANT GENERALS AND MAJOR GENERALS, Arranged in order of their rank, with their military records in the Confederate Army and previous records in the United States Army, of all those who graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point or were appointed from civil life ~ WITH ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT PORTRAITS MOST OF WHICH ...
• Éditeur: Austin TX. 1963 . The Steck Company Publishers ~ facsimile reproduction of the 1898 original.
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
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  • american civil war
  • biography
  • american history