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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good-. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Illustrated by Debra L. Hampton (illustrateur). First Edition. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Debra L. Hampton. The dust jacket is protected by a Brodart mylar cover. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation. The front fly-leaf has been removed and the dust jacket spine panel is lightly sunned. Very good - condition in a very good dust jacket. All books mailed in heavy cardboard boxes. Selling Used and Rare books on line since April 1998 and from our bookstore in the heart of the Bluegrass since 1984. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo.; 204 pages.

Spiral Bound. Etat : Very Good. 1579473520 Spiral bound with glossy card covers. Clean unmarked pages.

Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 60 pages. 6.88x4.25x0.14 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. Debra Long Hampton, Design; Elizabeth Blackburn, Cover Photograph (illustrateur). Rare, indeed, is the father in American literature. Rare, too, the world of academia that escapes satire. And rarer, yet, the humble treatment of aristocrats. Here in this one splendid book we have treatment of all three done with great tact and intelligence. Alexander Blackburn was born into the aristocracy of wealth on his mother's side and into the aristocracy of intellect on his father's. His father, the celebrated professor of writing at Duke University, had brilliant professor-son relationships with such students as William Styron, Reynolds Price, Fred Chappell, Mac Hyman, and Guy Davenport. Yet it is his own, Alex, who tells with love the story of his father born the son of missionaries on a dirt, though richly carpeted, floor in Iran and who died 73 years later in Duke Hospital, blind and speechless, with Reynolds Price sitting up night after night playing Mozart for him. Between these two dramatic scenes, Alexander Blackburn sits often on the sidelines, yearning for recognition, and finally telling, herewith, his own story and his father's and most importantly the almost universal story, that tentative and painfully shy love that exists between father and son. William Blackburn's class in Literary Composition at Duke University (from the early 1930s to the late 1960s) was charmingly unstructured and wonderfully successful in the number of distinguished writers who emerged from it. In a finely textured book that manages to be a family history and an autobiography, Alexander Blackburn has written a warmly affectionate and insightful life of his father, whose complexities, emotional turmoil, and old-fashioned sense of honor need, as they have gotten, the hand of a novelist. There are several black and white photographs throughout the book. The book pages are clean and free of any markings or highlighting. There is a gift salutation of the previous owner on the inside of the front cover. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. Debra L. Hampton (illustrateur). Revised edition, 4th printing, 1994.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Hampton, Debra L. (book design) (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Fine unread condition grayish beige boards, violet cloth spine and silver spine lettering contained in a very good condition price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by A.A. Hoehling; Author Dedication; Introduction and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. A neatly scripted vintage Christmas 1989 gift inscription at the upper left corner of the blank first free front endpaper. All other pages are in very fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly tight and square unread condition (see photographs). "In early 1864, a handful of Confederate sailors boarded the experimental subramrine Hunley and let it sink to the bottom of the harbor off Charleston, South Carolina, for an extended submergence test. A candle served as their only means of telling when their oxygen supply was low; after twenty-five minutes, its flame would burn no more. The hatch covers could not be lifted because of the water pressure. Four crews, the men knew, had already perished aboard the deadly vessel. Fighting panic, the sailors began turning the manual cranks that drove the propeller - the Hunley's only means of propulsion. It was a harrowing two hours before they reached the surface. Weeks later, the Hunley destroyed the USS Housatonic in history's first submarine attack, though its unfortunate crew died in the moment of glory. Such acts of uncommon bravery are the subject of Damn the Torpedoes! Naval Incidents of the Civil War. Too often, the scope and casualties of the great land battles of the war have overshadowed naval actions, though the fight was pressed with at least the same passion at sea as on land, and with considerably more improvisation. The Civil War at sea was demanding, real, and frightening. It is told here largely in the words of the participants, North and South alike. The stories of the epic battle between the Merrimack and the Monitor, of Davy Farragut's entrance into Mobile Bay, and of the Alabama's disruption of Union shipping before her sinking at the hands of the USS Kearsarge have seldom been told with such concern for the thoughts of the principals themselves. And the stories of the fleets of ferryboats hurriedly turned into men-of-war, of the hapless Mississippi riverboat captain ordered to transport a boatload of prostitutes to a town that had no intention of accepting them, and of the brash Confederate raider who brought the war as far north as Portland, Maine, finally get the wide telling they have so long deserved." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. xiv, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780895873118, 0895873117 ; OCLC 58595472 ; beige and brown cloth, in color pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: James F. Jackson, Innkeeper -- One Flag, Two Martyrs -- Colonel Francis Stebbins Bartow -- The Martyr of First Manassas -- Second Lieutenant William Preston Mangum, Jr. -- Earning a Regiment Its Famed Nickname -- Captain Dabney Carr Harrison -- In His Brother's Footsteps -- Private Charlie Jackson -- His Father's Son -- Brigadier General Robert Hopkins Hatton -- A Grand Final Review -- Brigadier General Turner Ashby -- To Kill the Yankee-Killer -- William Bruce Mumford, Disabled Soldier -- Treason or Patriotism? -- Color Sergeant James Hunt Taylor -- The Stained Banner -- Private John Frederick Krenson -- Just One of the "Beardless Boys" -- Corporal James Cal Jones -- The Final Farewell -- Captain Hugh Augustus White -- Exercising a Wider Influence for Good -- Unidentified Confederate Soldier -- Praying with a Stranger -- Colonel William Peleg Rogers -- Honor at All Costs -- Hiram T. Smith, Civilian -- The Substitute -- Lieutenant Nathaniel D. Renfroe -- The Fighting Parson -- Captain Peter Bramlett -- Gratitude for a Good Samaritan -- Major John Pelham -- The Gallant Pelham -- Lieutenant General Thomas Jonathan Jackson -- Stonewall -- Captain William Francis Corbin -- A Worthy Example -- Colonel William Orton Williams -- The Curious Case of Colonel Williams and Lieutenant Peters -- Private Stringfellow Houston -- The Indefatigable Spirit of Youth -- Colonel Henry "Harry" King Burgwyn, Jr. -- The Boy Colonel -- Colonel Isaac Erwin Avery -- Cemetery Hill -- Brigadier General William Barksdale -- Living and Dying the Dream -- Colonel James Keith Marshall -- Sinking at the High-Water Mark -- Brigadier General Lewis Addison Armistead -- That Sublime Four-Letter Word -- George Cummings, Body Servant -- Undying Loyalty -- Brigadier General James Johnston Pettigrew -- From High Tide to Falling Waters -- Brigadier General Benjamin Hardin Helm -- Brother-in-Law vs. Brother-in-Law -- Lieutenant Richard Rowland Kirkland -- Death of an Angel -- First Lieutenant John E. Wilson -- Brothers in Blood -- Private Samuel Davis -- But One Life to Give -- David Owen Dodd, Telegrapher -- Too Young to Die -- Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart -- Lee's Eyes and Ears -- Artilleryman Edward Cooper -- From the Firing Squad to the Firing Line -- Dr. David Herbert Llewellyn, Assistant Surgeon -- Every Man for Himself, Save One -- Lieutenant Isaac Lightner -- Three Years behind the Big Guns -- Private William Youree -- Billy Reb -- Private Dewitt Smith Jobe -- Action Rather Than Words -- Chaplain Emmeran Bliemel -- Under the Din of Battle -- Lieutenant Colonel David Berkley Lang -- Wherever Duty Calls -- Private William Thomas Overby -- The Nathan Hale of the Confederacy -- Major General Stephen Dodson Ramseur -- From Birth to Death In the Company of Friends -- Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne -- The Wearing o' the Gray -- Colonel Mike Farrell -- The Fighting Irishman -- Captain John Yates Beall, Confederate States Navy -- Master of Intrigue -- Captain Robert Cobb Kennedy -- Burning and Hanging in New York -- Colonel William Johnson Pegram -- Tempting Fate -- Edmund Ruffin, Fire-Eater -- The First and Last Shots of the War -- Captain George Washington Summers and Sergeant Isaac Newton Koontz -- Injustice in the Name of Justice -- Captain Champ Ferguson -- The Master of Mayhem ; FINE/FINE. Book.

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