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Published by Random House Children's Books, 1973
ISBN 10: 0394465830ISBN 13: 9780394465838
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. 1st. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Published by University of Wisconsin Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0299113949ISBN 13: 9780299113940
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
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Published by Oxford Univ Pr September 1975, 1975
ISBN 10: 0195198190ISBN 13: 9780195198195
Seller: A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
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Paper Back. Condition: Very Good. Light shelf wear and some stains to the cover.
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Published by Oxford University Press, London, 1975
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. xix, 385pp, xiv. Very good. Faint edgewear; small scuff on front wrapper. A tight and nice first softbound edition of this noted 1973 study of Civil War writings.
Published by Oxford University Press, London, 1975
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. xix, 385pp, xiv. Near fine. First softbound edition, tight and quite nice. Distinguished criticism on Civil War writings.
Published by New York: Knopf; distributed by Random House, 1973, 1973
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
very good dust-jacket with a few small tears around edges, cover price $12.50, very good dark blue cloth, top foredge perhaps a bit soiled, but very minor. AARON, DANIEL. The unwritten war; American writers and the Civil War. New York: Knopf; distributed by Random House, 1973, stated First Edition, xix, 385, xiv, . Dust-jacket design by Jay J. Smith. Series: The Impact of the Civil War. - CONTENTS: I. "They break the lines of union" : Writers and politics: Taking sides ; The fallen angel and the risen saint -- The "Wholesome calamity": William Gilmore Simms and Southern wrongs ; George Templeton Strong -- reluctant abolitionist ; Yankee literati and the "Holy War" -- Dr. Holmes ; James Russell Lowell -- agitator-conservator ; Emerson goes to war. - II. A philosophical view of the whole affair : Hawthorne: lonely dissenter: Naturalist ; Chiefly about war matters ; The terrible allegory -- Whitman: the "Parturition Years": Sounding the tocsin ; Blacks and abolitionists ; "Deaths, operations, sickening wounds" ; War -- "The real article" ; "Lincoln's man" ; The convulsive years -- Melville: the conflict of convictions: Melville and Whitman ; Battle-pieces as a war narrative ; "Through terror and pity" ; Prophecies and misgivings. - III. The "malingerers" : Henry Adams: The young strategist ; Qualms and indecisions ; The House of Adams victorious ; Prospects and portents ; The unwanted man -- Henry James: The wound ; Father and sons ; "The consecrating sentiment" ; "A poor worm of peace" ; The blighted South -- William Dean Howells: The inglorious assignment ; Rediscovering the enemy ; The war assessed ; Literary consequences -- Mark Twain: The Comic mask ; Mark Twain's "campaign" ; Huck and Tom ; The fable of catastrophe. - IV. Drawing-room warriors and combatants : Gentlemen of peace and war: The "elevated" view -- Stedman, Taylor & Co. ; War poets on sea and land -- H.H. Brownell and N.S. Shaler ; Gentlemen-soldiers -- Captain O.W. Holmes, Jr., and others -- John W. De Forest: A volunteer's adventures ; Whites and blacks in pre-war Dixie ; The war in document and fiction ; The recorders -- trashy and true -- Ambrose Bierce: "Salad days" ; War internalized ; The volunteer remembers ; Soldiers v. civilians ; "A land of peace and pensions" -- Albion W. Tourgée in fact and fiction ; Tourgée's "History" ; Racism and the future. - V. The war at second hand : Stephen Crane and Harold Frederic: Recruits and veterans ; Henry Fleming's "conversion" ; Mutual admirers ; The war in Dearborn County ; Copperheads and deserters ; A dissenting voice. - VI. The South: Onlookers and participants : Writers in the Confederacy: South Carolina Quixote ; The promised renascence ; Timrod's war ; Launching the legend -- The unwritten novel: Cooke's Cavaliers ; Richard Taylor -- ironist ; David Hunter Strother -- realist ; Mrs. Chesnut's South ; Mrs. Chesnut maps a story ; Mrs. Chesnut's unfinished "novel" -- Sidney Lanier: The great wind ; Tiger-lilies and the allegory of war -- George Washington Cable: The un-Southern Confederate ; Cable on the "lost cause" ; The grandissimes. - VII. Reconstructing the Southern past : The neo-Confederates: "A holy conviction makes a holy cause" ; A stand for Dixie ; Uses of the past ; Biographical narratives ; Allen Tate and the novel as history ; The meditations of Robert Penn Warren -- William Faulkner: Faulkner and agrarians ; Licensed chronicler ; Legend-makers (men) ; Legend-makers (women) ; The truths of fantasy. - Conclusion: "Such was the war" -- Supplement 1: The war prefigured -- Supplement 2: Lincoln and the writers -- Supplement 3: A further note on the "Collegians" -- Supplement 4: Emily Dickinson's "Private campaign.". 9780394465838 ISBN 0394465830.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1973
ISBN 10: 0394465830ISBN 13: 9780394465838
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. xix, 385pp., xiv. Light foxing on page edges, spine ends lightly bumped, small stain on rear board, very good in a very good dust jacket with corresponding small stain on rear panel, spine sunned, short tears on edges.
Published by University Alabama Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0817350020ISBN 13: 9780817350024
Seller: Lake Country Books and More, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: None as issued. Solid copy with unmarked text. Cover has light wear to surface and edges. University bookstore stickers on back. Binding is tight and square; no creases to spine or cover. New edition. We are unable to ship oversize books and multi-volume sets internationally.
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Published by Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1987
ISBN 10: 0299113906ISBN 13: 9780299113902
Seller: Sunny Day Books, Mayer, AZ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. A beautiful copy. Text in mint/unmarked condition. Cover has minor shelf rubbings. Binding is tight.
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Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1973
ISBN 10: 0394465830ISBN 13: 9780394465838
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover, large chip head of spine.