Williams Ben Ames Ed (11 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. We have 75,000 books to choose from -- Ship within 24 hours -- Satisfaction Guaranteed.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Very light wear to wraps, very clean, no markings, no creasing tospine; 572 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Bookplate, else a near fine copy in a VG, N. C. Wyeth illustrated dust jacket. 498 p. Book.

Condition: Very Good. Houghton Mifflin Co 11/19/49 Binding: Unknown grey c; 572 pages Illustrator: Frontis PublishPlace: Boston, MA Size: 8 vo.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Chipped DJ. First Edition. 498pp. DJ illustration by Wyeth. "Edited from battleground accounts." 'Contents' pages roughly opened. Wyeth, N.C. (illustrator).

Condition: fair to good. 572, footnotes, index, large blue "X" inside front flyleaf, some staining to boards & spine, some wear to board corners. Some wear to top and bottom edges of spine. This original diary of the wife of Confederate General James Chesnut, Jr., who was also an aide to President Jefferson Davis, provides an eyewitness narrative of the Civil War. Period photos illustrate this account of the daily lives and tribulations of all those who suffered through the war, from ordinary people to the Confederacy's generals and political figures.…

CHESNUT, Mary Boykin. WILLIAMS, Ben Ames (ed.). A Diary from Dixie. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980. 8vo. xxviii, 572 pp., frontis. Orig. cloth. Very good. In Tall Cotton 23. Harwell writes, "This is one of the great diaries-from any time and any place. Mrs. Chesnut recopied (perhaps rewrote) her diary after the war and her heirs permitted it to be published after some excisions. But the 1905 edition is an excellent one and proves that Mrs. Chesnut wrote with art and charm that transcend her occasional lapses in fact and transpositions of the sequence of events." This present copy is an expanded edition of Chesnut's diary originally published in 1949.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. SIGNED (Inscribed) BY GREAT NIECE OF AUTHOR. Very Good+ in very good+ dust jacket. Book has some foxing (tanning due to age); dust jacket has slight bumped corner; now protected by archival mylar cover. With price on DJ corner--$5.00. Inscription reads: "To Lee and Dave, with gratitude and affection, fropm Ellen Manning Williams" (unreadable), "(your Bobs), great neice of M.B.C."Guaranteed satisfaction; booksellers since 1988. Signed by Author.…

Condition: fair, ex-lib. First? Edition. First? Printing. 498, maps, sources, usual library markings, front board weak and strengthened with glue, boards somewhat worn and soiled. Eyewitness accounts of hotly contested actions in which Americans have fought, written by actual combatants. Harold Field Kellogg (illustrator).…