Sears Stephen Edited (19 results)

1st printing of 1st edition. Haydon served during the first three years of the Civil War and fought in numerous campaigns including First Bull Run, the Peninsula Campaign, Vicksburg and Knoxville. Ironically, on this way home on furlough, he contracted pneumonia and died in March 1864. Light foxing along page edges (not effecting text or margins) otherwise very good hard cover book/ slight edgewear otherwise near fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. With full number line and frontispiece. DJ protected in Mylar wraps. A very nice copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. 0395619025 . Size : 8vo - over 7þ" - 9þ" tall. Pages : 308 Condition : A fine copy of the book with minor dust soiling to the top page edges, in a fine dust jacket that is in a mylar dust jacket protector. See photos; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 308 pages . cel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. complete number line - 1st printing therefore 1st edition, light soiling to bottom edge of textblock and light rubbing to bottom corners of boards, dj shows very light wear - no tears, chips, creases and original price intact.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} A78.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Slight shelf wear to the dust jacket, cover, and spine. Binding remains tight and pages are clean and unbent. Used Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint Edition. Black cloth spine and red boards with dustjacket. Entire book is very clean, square along the edges, and tightly bound. Minor bumps to dj edges and dj is price clipped at inside flap. Text and numerous illustrations are absolutely clean and clear. Binding is strong. Due to the book's oversize and weight, extra postage may be requested at the time of purchase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001. First edition, first printing. Anthology of 36 essays about the Civil War. Hardcover, color illustrated dustjacket. Fine condition, with firm binding, no names or other markings, in very good dustjacket with very light shelf rubbing, mainly to the spine ends, mylar protector. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. EXTRAORDINARY: BEAUTIFULLY EDITED: PROFOUNDLY MOVING: HAUNTING: NEW First Edition LOA hardcover (Orig. 2012) First Printing * head-notes, chronology of events, biographical & explanatory endnotes, full-color hand-drawn end-paper maps, & index * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.50", 0.78 kg, xxviii+874+x (912) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: Set between January 1862 & January 1863, this second installment in the ambitious LOA Civil War series paints an unforgettable portrait of the year that turned a secessionist rebellion into a war of emancipation, including 11 never-before-published pieces, here are more than 140 messages, proclamations, newspaper stories, letters, diary entries, memoir excerpts, & poems by more than 80 participants & observers, among them Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, George B. McClellan, Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Clara Barton, Harriet Jacobs, and George Templeton Strong, as well as soldiers Charles B. Haydon & Henry Livermore Abbott; diarists Kate Stone & Judith McGuire; & war correspondents George E. Stephens & George Smalley. The selections include vivid & haunting narratives of battles (Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, the gunboat war on the Western rivers, Shiloh, the Seven Days, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Iuka, Corinth, Perryville, Fredericksburg, Stones River) as well as firsthand accounts of life & death in the military hospitals in Richmond & Georgetown; of the impact of war on Massachusetts towns & Louisiana plantations; of the struggles of runaway slaves & the mounting fears of slaveholders; & of the deliberations of the cabinet in Washington, as Lincoln moved toward what he would call "the central act of my administration & the great event of the nineteenth century": the revolutionary proclamation of emancipation. * Companion volumes gather writings from the first, third, & final years of the conflict. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: STEPHEN W. SEARS is widely regarded as the dean of American Civil War historians & is the author of "Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam"; "George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon"; "To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign"; "Chancellorsville; Controversies and Commanders"; & "Gettysburg". * HIGHEST PRAISE: "In this extraordinary, imaginatively-compiled, & beautifully edited collection, men & women of every class & kind express in their own words how it was to live in an America tearing itself apart. All the contradictory emotions those events inspired are here, raw & unfiltered by historians--bigotry & aspiration, anger & forgiveness, cynicism & courage. If there is a richer evocation of those times, I have not seen it." -Geoffrey Ward, co-author of "The Civil War" & author of "A First Class Temperament". * LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing & keeping permanently in print America's best & most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 400 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, & ribbon markers, & are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL w/ rates quoted upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. EXTRAORDINARY: BEAUTIFULLY EDITED: PROFOUNDLY MOVING: NEW First Edition LOA hardcover (Orig. 2011) Second Printing (c. 2014) * Includes head-notes, a chronology of events, biographical & explanatory endnotes, full-color hand-drawn end-paper maps, & an index * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.36", 0.70 kg, xxvi+814 (840) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: The first volume in the widely praised LOA four-volume series of first hand accounts & writings on the American Civil War?features first-hand writings from Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, & more: After the passing of more than 160 years the Civil War remains our greatest national drama, at once heroic, tragic, & epic--our Iliad but also our Bible, a story of sin & judgment, suffering & despair, death & resurrection in a "new birth of freedom." Drawn from letters, diaries, speeches, articles, poems, songs, military reports, legal opinions, & memoirs, "The Civil War: The First Year" gathers more than 120 pieces by more than 60 participants to create a unique firsthand narrative of this great historical crisis. Beginning on the eve of Lincoln's election in November 1860 & ending in January 1862 w/ the appointment of Edwin M. Stanton as secretary of war, this volume presents writing by figures well-known?Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Mary Chesnut, Frederick Douglass, & Lincoln himself among them?& less familiar, like pro-slavery advocate J.D.B. DeBow, Lieutenants Charles B. Haydon of the 2nd Michigan Infantry & Henry Livermore Abbott of the 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, & plantation mistresses Catherine Edmondston of North Carolina & Kate Stone of Mississippi. Together, the selections provide a powerful sense of the immediacy, uncertainty, & urgency of events as the nation was torn asunder. Companion volumes gather writings from the second, third, and final years of the conflict. * ABOUT THE EDITORS: BROOKS D. SIMPSON is Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University. He is the author of "Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant & the Politics of War & Reconstruction, 1861-1868" & "Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865", & is the co-editor of "Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865". STEPHEN W. SEARS is the author of "Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam"; "George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon"; "To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign"; "Chancellorsville; Controversies and Commanders"; & "Gettysburg". AARON SHEEHAN DEAN is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Florida & author of "Why Confederates Fought: Family & Nation in Civil War Virginia" and "The Concise Historical Atlas of the U.S. Civil War". * HIGHEST PRAISE: "In this extraordinary, imaginatively-compiled, & beautifully edited collection, men & women of every class & kind express in their own words how it was to live in an America tearing itself apart. All the contradictory emotions those events inspired are here, raw & unfiltered by historians--bigotry & aspiration, anger & forgiveness, cynicism & courage. If there is a richer evocation of those times, I have not seen it." -Geoffrey Ward, co-author of "The Civil War" & author of "A First Class Temperament". * LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing & keeping permanently in print America's best & most significant writing. The LOA series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, & ribbon markers, & are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL w/ rates quoted upon request.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xix, 522 pp. LCC: 00-053358 Very good condition; previous owner's name on inside of front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Heritage edition. 308pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with crease on front flap. "The Best of American Heritage." An anthology of first-person accounts.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardback, pages untrimmed, otherwise very good in faded and creased dustjacket. ; An eyewitness account by a Union soldier who fought from Bull Run to Knoxville, 1864. Haydon started the war as a third sergeant and ended it a lieutenant-colonel; he served with the 2nd Michigan Infantry. ; 388 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. A Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket. 4to., 367 pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Burgundy cloth in illustrated dust jacket. The dj is starting to fox on the reverse. Some light soiling to the text block edges. Gift inscription on the front end paper. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve. A Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: New. NEW in shrink wrap.Expertly packed. *PROFESSIONAL BOOKSELLER* Returns accepted. Refunds given.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over quarter-bound black on orange boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 8½" x 5¾" (0.9 kg); pp (ix) 244; Cover art by Paul Perlow; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #188958 ||.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Published by Houghton Miffin Company of Boston in 1991. Hardcover. 1st edition. Book condition: Very Good. Cream paper covered boards with black cloth spine with gilt titles to spine. A dirt mark appear along the bottom of the front board. Apart from that book is in a very good order. Dust Jacket condition: Very Good. There is a crease on the inside flap of jacket. Price unclipped. See photograph. Dims: 215mm x 145mm x 33mm. 308 pages.

Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American Edition. This is a very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket. There is water damage to the back and spine of the jacket, and a few of the final interior pages and the back paste-down; else fine. Contents fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First editions. Four volume set lacking the box slipcase. Fine in fine dust jackets.