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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 167pp including index A chronicle of Wallt Whitman's Experiences in the Civil War Stated first edition This edition contains nearly 300 entries, with 50 compelling period photographs of the people, plaes and events Whitman captured in his prose Dust jacket is slightly sunned on spine and overlapping edge of front and rear cover, otherwise jacket is fine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING . HARDCOVER EDITION WITH DUSTJACKET .binding is solid.NOT EX-LIBRARY COPY.text unmarked .

Hardcover. xix, 167p., illustrated endpapers, frontis, introduction, sources, index, illustrations, very good first edition stated incloth boards and bright unclipped dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. red full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. tiny spot on front cover (.5cm). edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. other than the tiny spot book is like new. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition so stated. first printing (nap). illustrated endpapers. b&w frontis. portrait. xxix+167p+about the editor & colophon. 8 pages of sepiatone photo illustrations. sepiatone illustrations & document facsimiles in text. biography. autobiography. memoirs. american history. american civil war. poetry. ~ IN LATE 1862, at the height of the Civil War, the poet and former newspaperman Walt Whitman traveled to a Virginia base camp in search of his wounded brother. The unattended misery he found there ~ rows of unburied corpses, piles of amputated limbs, wounded men lying on the frozen ground ~ moved him to (as he wrote) "a profound conviction of necessity" that he had to help relieve it. Whitman spent the next four years, at great personal and professional sacrifice, working as a voluntary nurse at military hospitals in the frontline capital of Washington, tending to the sick and wounded well past the war's end. The Sacrificial Years is Walt Whitman's own story of his involvement in the Civil War and of his thoughts and feelings about this great crisis. Whitman himself never kept a diary of his experiences (a fact he later regretted), but he did write hundreds of letters, newspaper articles, and "memoranda." While many of these works have been published individually, editor John Harmon McElroy is the first to select and arrange Whitman's prose writings on the war in chronological sequence ~ including previously unpublished extracts from his recently discovered Civil War notebook~ thereby reconstructing a continuous narrative of his month~to~month experience in his own words. Poignant and powerful, encompassing the horror and the scope of that immense conflict, Walt Whitman's war chronicles are one of the essential documents of those crucial years. This edition contains nearly 300 entries, and is further enhanced with 50 compelling period photographs of the many places, people, and events that Whitman captured so vividly in his prose.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Almost Like New. First Edition. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

1st edition. 8vo. xix + [168pp.] B/w. portrait frontispiece and illustrations. Crease to tail corner of title page. Original maroon cloth. Pictorial beige d/w. lettered in brown and black, faded to spine. ISBN 1567920799 US$18.

First edition. 8vo. [xix], 167 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good copy. (93646). Introduction by John Harmon McElroy.