Eby Cecil Edited (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. first edition, xxi + 296 pages, illustrations throughout, bibliographical appendix, brown cloth over boards with gilt spine title. Boards lightly rubbed and edgeworn, spine gilt dulled and ends frayed, endpapers age toned, ink names, hand writing at end of introduction by person who viewed original drawings as a child, otherwise contents very good and binding is tight. Bookseller since 1975.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Stapled wrappers. 67pp. Heavy foxing on page edges and wrappers, about very good. Essays by Frederick J. Hoffman, Walter B. Rideout, James K. Feibleman, Jon S. Lawry, and Cratis D. Williams. Poetry by Raymond Roseliep. Reviews by Ihab Hassan and Edwin H. Cady.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, xx, 294 pgs, index, introduction by Cecil Ely. Gilt stamped spine on light red cloth. With dust jacket as issued. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Near fine with minor shelf rubbing. Interior is clean and tight. Unclipped DJ is near fine in mylar sleeve. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION:David Hunter Strother was an American journalist, artist, and brevet Brigadier General, and diplomat from West Virginia. Both before and after the American Civil War (in which he was initially a war correspondent), Strother was a successful 19th-century American magazine illustrator and writer, popularly known by his pseudonym, "Porte Crayon". A Union topographer and nominal cavalry commander during the war, Strother rose to the rank of brevet Brigadier General of Volunteers, and afterward restructured the Virginia Military Institute, as well as serving as U.S. consul in Mexico. REFERENCES: NEVINS I pg 165: "The celebrated 'Porte Cranyon's' Civil War diaries are a rich source for data on the Eastern Theater in general and the Shenandoah Valley in particular." MULLINS/REED #221.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. nice copy but a couple of chips to dust jacket.