Gen Hill (8 results)

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover, green boards.pages clean,tight,slight rumpling from water to last few pages,light marker mark on side and bottom edge. No dust jacket. INV#X-32.

Condition: Fair. First ed., pp. 287-378, plus 14 p. of period ads with engravings for fertilizers, guns & pistols, hotels, India rubber goods, marble works, patent medicine, tailors, watering places, schools, books, wire railing, saddles and harnesses, etc., etc. paper strong and only mildly age-toned but stained or foxed in places; last few pages dog-eared but not brittle, and very last page chipped at lower edge. Binding firm, but signature for p. 357-360 torn out and chipped at right margin. Light blue cover with interesting engravings is quite smudged, and has signature of former owner in upper corner; spine rubbed, esp. at crown. Includes poetry, a play, fiction, book reviews, an editorial and very interesting articles. "The Dickens Dinner" by T.C. DeLeon of Baltimore, Md. is a report on a dinner given for Charles Dickens during his tour of the United States, at which he was very late, the introduction given him by Horace Greeley, his speech, the pain he suffered from gout, what his voice was like, and other details. Other articles include "The Decay of Religion in the South," "The System of English Gang Labor," "Personal Recollections of Eminent Men by a Virginia Matron," "Sheep Husbandry," and others.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ***Please Read*** Name stamp inside cover - No marks on text - My shelf location 34-f-40.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Five issues of The Land We Love. Condition varies from issue to issue (a few covers are detached; moderate amounts of edge and spine wear; some heavy soiling to covers; some interior damp stains). Each issue is approximately 75 pages. 9 x 5.75 inches. The Land We Love was an influential, post-Civil War magazine in the American South that ran from 1866 to 1869. The journal featured original stories and poetry, articles on military history, agriculture, and other topics, informing a Southern perspective. It was edited by the scholar and Confederate General, Daniel Harvey Hill (1821-1889), who also later served as the president of the University of Arkansas (1877-1884) and of the Military and Agricultural College of Milledgeville, Georgia (1885-1889). The five volumes: Vol. I, No. II (Jun 1866). Covers detached. Fair. Vol. I, No. III (Jul 1866). Fair. Vol. I. No. VI (Oct 1866). Includes the index for Vol. I. VG. Vol. II, No. I (Nov 1866). Front cover detached. Fair. Vol. II, No. IV (Feb 1867). Good. Many of the features appeared in serialized form, including Gen. D. H. Hill's s varied remembrances of the war, titled "The Haversack". Other miscellaneous pieces include Gen D. H. Hill's twelve page Report of the Battle of Chickamauga; Gen. Wade Hampton's Report of the Battle of Chickamauga; war recollection of College Hospital in Gettysburg; Wounding of Lieutenant-General T.J. Jackson; Sketch of Gen A. P. Hill (by a relative); a ten page article on "The Enterprise and Energy of the South"; original southern poetry (e.g. "Our Confederate Dead," "A One-Armed Soldier's Story," "The Land We Love") and fiction, including work by Fanny Downing and Margaret Junkin Preston; book reviews; correspondence; articles on southern agriculture and livestock; and profiles of Virginia homesteads (Belmead: CSA Gen. Philip St. George Cocke's residence; Vaucluse: Judge Abel P. Upshur's residence). Each issue concludes with several pages of advertising, typically but not limited to schools, academies, and hotels.

3 issues. Each with ads, 8.5 x 5.5", pict wraps, approx. 80pp each, worn, edges and spines chipped, April issue missing rear cover, soiled, spotted, August issue with spine cello-taped; SWAF. Still, an interesting look at the South directly after the Civil War. April issue has the poem "Si Semper Tyrannis" by J.H. Larew of Virginia, all about the fall of Virginia. Interesting.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This is 8 issues of the reconstruction magazine that D. H. Hill published in Charlotte. Vol. IV, #1,3. Vol.V, #3,4. Vol. VI, #2,3,4,5. Al in the blue wraps, in good condition, except one volume has margin loss. Photos on request. [Coming from our little bookshop in the shadow of the D.H. Hill library at NCSU].

Cloth. Condition: Good. Signed by Gen. P.H. Sheridan, the first edition of Proceedings Of The Bunker Hill Monument Association, published in 1875. (illustrator). First Edition. Octavo, viii, [9]-216pp, [2]. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine, decorative gilt monument on front cover. Decorative border stamped in blind on cover. Top edge gilt. Green endpapers, both hinges reinforced with archival repairs. Notable shelf wear, bumped corners, dampstain along lower quarter of text block, limited impact to cloth and endpapers. Text block solid. Includes laid-in presentation slip from the Bunker Hill Monument Association, dated December, 1875. Signed on the front pastedown with "Lieut. Gen. P.H. Sheridan / U.S. Army." General Sheridan was an honorary member of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, elected in 1869, along with U.S. Grant, William T. Sherman, David Farragut, and John A. Winslow. General Philip H. Sheridan (1831-1888) was known for his aggressive leadership in major Civil War campaigns, such as the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864, using scorched earth tactics to cripple Confederate forces and resources. Sheridan also commanded the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac, contributing to the defeat of General Robert E. Lee's forces at Appomattox. After the war, he oversaw military operations in the Reconstruction South and the Indian Wars, including the campaigns against the Plains Indians. Sheridan became General of the Army in 1883. Signed.