Chipman General (19 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 511 pages. Some staining and wear to the original covers. Bookplate and name inside; the pages are tanned with age; a strong cigarette smell inside; a solid binding. Quantity Available: 1. Category: American History; Inventory No: 223853.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Brown cover with gold lettering and design. Spine is leather. Ribbon bookmark. Gilt around all page edges. Very clean. Privately printed for the members of The Noable Trials Library. Pictures on request.

Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. This book is clean, solid and in great shape! This is a hardcover book with 511 pages including some illustrations. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages are clean with no soiling, writing, or tears. The copyright page shows 1990 as the published date. The brown covers are clean and in great shape. This book looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box!

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. Second Edition. Second edition revised and enlarged. 532 pages with photographs and list of witnesses. Full report of the evidence given at the trial of Captain Henry Wirz, commander of the Andersonville Rebel Prison, for his neglect and mistreatment of Union prisoners during the Civil War. Laid in is a pamphlet (8 pp) showing some of the illustrations from the book from the Sacramento edition (second edition.) The corners, top and bottom have been bumped and are lightly bent. The top and bottom of the spine have rubbed which has lightly exposed the tips of the spine. The first edition was originally published in 1891 in San Francisco in a 89 page pamphlet.Covers have faded and the lettering on the spine is no longer legible. See Nevins, CWB, I., p. 188: This work greatly expands, and largely supersedes, Chipman's pamphlet.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. Illustrated. 511 pages, 8vo, 1/2 leather over gilt-decorated brown leather, a.e.g. New York: The Notable Trials Library, (1990). A fine copy.

Limited/Numbered. FINE. Brown cloth boards, brown leather spine - 4 ribs. Marbled endpapers. Full gilt all edges. Silk bookmark. #3006 of Limited subscription edition (per inside cover plate]. [B149].

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Thus. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Published by The Notable Trials Library, 1990. Octavo. Gilt stained page ends. Book is like new with two smudges/streaks to front cover. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Second Edition. Octavo. 532 pages, [2]. Frontispiece portrait of author. Illustrated. Light blue cloth hardcover with gilt stamped title and illustrated on the front cover. Gilt title on spine. Front board is scuffed lower edge. Spine is faded and edge worn. Light foxing to the end sheets and back of the frontispiece. Small corner damp stain pages 439-532. Previous owner book plate on right front flyleaf. A fair copy. Nevins I page 188.

Hard cover. Condition: Fair. No jacket. Some rubbing on corners and spine. Bright gilt stamps. Previous owner's name on inside front cover, otherwise unmarked inside. Light moisture stain in lower corner near binding of first 60 pages. One cracked signature but all pages present and well attached.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Like new. Brown leather spine over brown cloth, with gilt titles and edges. No marks or names inside.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Second edition. Title page states "Second Edition Revised and Enlarged, Price $2.00". 532 pages, index, photos. Frontis portrait of author who was judge advocate of the military court. Front pastedown endpaper has previous owner's inked signature and "Ohio vol. a prisoner there in for 9 mos". Gold lettering on front and spine; white stamped illustration on front board. Blue cloth covered boards have rubbing at bottom edges and corners. Protected in a fine custom slipcase.

Hardcover / Hardback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Hardback. This edition has been privately printed for the Members of The Notable Trials Library. Intro' by Alan M. Dershowitz. Heinrich Hartmann Wirz better known as Henry Wirz was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War. He is best known for his command of Camp Sumter, the Confederate prisoner of war camp near Andersonville, Georgia; he was tried and executed after the war on November 10, 1865, for conspiracy and murder relating to his command of the camp. Illus. + Index. 511pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Aeg, marbled eps. 1/4 bound in brown leather, dec. in gilt, with banded sp. Includes ribbon bookmark. F. A heavy book which will require additional postage.

Condition: Very Good. Quarter bound in brown leather with gilt lettering, decoration and raised bands on spine. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt decoration. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor w/ Protective Cover. First American Edition. Good condition for it's advanced age. Shadowing on the FEP and BEP from d.j. The d.j. is plain brown wrap basic lettering on the spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First edition. First edition. 511 pp, frontispiece, 32 black and white photos. 1 vols. 8vo. An account of the trial of Captain Henry Wirz, the notorious commander of Andersonville prison. Illustrated blue cloth, title in gilt, rubbed, spine sunned and bumped, corners with minor fraying, else very good 511 pp, frontispiece, 32 black and white photos. 1 vols. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Important firsthand account of the notorious prison by an eyewitness. Original blue gilt designer cloth. A clean, tight, unmarked copy in a heavy Mylar jacket.

Second edition, revised and enlarged. 8vo. 532 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, portraits, map and plan. Wirz (1823-1865) was one of two people convicted and executed for war crimes committed during the Civil War. Harry Houdini's copy, with three of his stamps, one each on front and rear endpapers, and one on an internal leaf. Nevins I, p. 188: "This work greatly expands, and largely supersedes [Chipman's 1891, 89-page pamphlet covering the subject]." Dornbusch III, 626. Nicholson, p. 149 (for the 1891 first edition). Still a good solid copy, with an intriguing association. Original white, black, and gilt-stamped decorated cloth (rubbed, spine heavily sunned, spine ends somewhat frayed). (9967).