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Greenwood Press first edition (per Greenwood's "First published" statement upon copyright page). xx, 348 pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 14.25cm. No dust jacket. Dark mustard cloth. Text block edges foxed; foxing to several initial and rear leaves but with interior text leaves mostly clean. Binding retains some crispness. With Preface, Editor's Introduction, and Index. Five sections feature eighteen essays which were first published in the academic journal "Civil War History." ***** [PART I. HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE CIVIL WAR.] "Civil War Synthesis in American Political History" by Joel H. Silbey. "Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions" by Eric Foner. "Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877: A Critical Overview of Recent Trends and Interpretations" by Richard O. Curry. "John Brown and His Judges: A Critique of the Historical Literature" by Stephen B. Oates. [PART II. POLITICS AT THE GRASS ROOTS: ELECTIONS AND VOTERS.] "Northern Democratic Party and the Congressional Elections of 1858" by David E. Meerse. "Ethnic Voter and the First Lincoln Election" by Robert P. Swierenga. "Rejected Republican Incumbents in the 1866 Congressional Nominating Conventions: A Study in Reconstruction Politics" by Lawrence N. Powell. "Rout of Radicalism: Republicans and the Elections of 1867" by Michael Les Benedict. "Republicans and Black Suffrage in New York State: The Grass Roots Response" by Phyllis Frances Field. [PART III. "SPIRIT OF PARTY": CONGRESS AND ROLL CALL VOTING.] "Party and Section: The Senate and the Kansas-Nebraska Bill" by Gerald W. Wolff. "Unconscious "Spirit of Party" in the Confederate Congress" by Richard E. Beringer. "Bloc and Party in the United States Senate: 1861-1863" by Alan G. Bogue. "Who Were the Senate Radicals?" by Edward L. Gambill. "'Radical' Political and Economic Policies: The Senate, 1873-1877" by Glenn M. Linden. [PART IV. PATRONAGE, RELIGION, AND RACE: THE ETHNORELIGIOUS DIMENSION OF POLITICS.] "Political Patronage and Ethnic Groups: Foreign-born in the United States Customhouse Service, 1821-1861" by Leonard Tabachnik. "Religious and Occupational Roots of Party Identification: Illinois and Indiana in the 1870's" by Richard Jensen. "Negroes in the First and Second Reconstructions of the South" by August Meier. [PART V. IDEOLOGY AND POLITICS.] "Slavery and the Slave Power: A Crucial Distinction" by Larry Gara. "William Lloyd Garrison and Antislavery Unity: A Reappraisal" by Bertram Wyatt-Brown. "Aims and Impact of Garrisonian Abolitionism, 1840-1860" by James B. Stewart. ISBN 0837179602.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Ian Linden "Painful truths can heal the past" / Paul Boateng "'Only a black boy (Stephen Lawrence)'" / Andrew Greeley "Oh, to be a victim - Sins of the Nineties:3" / Bruce Harbert "A meeting with Christ" / Harman Grisewood "On human sexuality" / James Martin "Ploughing the soul" (BT#40).…

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 4pp Prospectus for subscribers of Linden Editions publications. Printed on both sides of single sheet of laid cream paper (measures 315mm x 454mm). Folded twice to produce a small mailer (230mm x 160mm). Red Initial letter and blue insignia. Mounted decorative label on front cover. Enclosed within the folder is an unused order form for Subscriber's Reply. Both items in fine condition. …

oblong small 8vo. quarter red leather, with handmade Fabriano Roma endpapers, gilt on spine, slipcase with paper spine label. 131 pages. With Reminiscences by his Friends. Introduction and illustrations by Valenti Angelo Plasmati. Edited by James Linden. Limited to 100 copies of which 85 were for sale. This copy is one of XII roman numeral copies bound thus and contains two additional printing specimens by Angelo loosely inserted into their own paper folder. Prospectus loosely inserted. Fine in near fine slipcase. Color photo of Angelo tipped-in at back. "Subscriber's Copy" with a printed folder containing a signed eulogy by James Linden printed in 1982, laid in. A nice tribute to the great Valenti Angelo, with a 74 item bibliographical appendix by Linden (expanded after the 1976 Book Club of California Angelo bibliography work), and contributions by his daughter and numerous other informed admirers. Of the subscribers for this book upon publication was Oak Knoll's Robert D. Fleck, Jr. Provenance: this copy was for Charles P. Gould, whom was a subscriber for the deluxe edition upon publication. quarter red leather, with handmade Fabriano Roma endpapers, gilt on spine, slipcase with paper spine label. Angelo, Valenti (illustrator).…