[Rarebooks] FS: Lot of Civil War books

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Seven titles for $40.00, postpaid-

“SECRET MISSIONS OF THE CIVIL WAR –First-hand accounts by men and women
who risked their lives in underground activities for the North and the
South”  By Philip Van Doren Stern. Published by Rand McNally & Co. in
1960; 2nd printing.  “Every major conflict is fought on two fronts: the
open hostilities of the opposing armed forces, and the undercover
activities of spies and counterspies, espionage agents, and others whose
deeds are often daring and unsung. This book ranges from exploits of the
Confederate Torpedo Service to accounts of running the blockade, from
Morgan and his raiders’ escape from prison to the attempt to burn New York
City, from the raid on shipping of the Eastern Seaboard to the successful
explosion of the ammunition dump at City Point, Virginia, from the
adventures of a woman spy disguised as a Negro man to the destruction of
the ironclad ‘Albermarle’.  This is a hardcover, 6"x8.5”, 320 pages; dust
jacket; the jacket with some wear and rubbing, a few stains, etc; light
overall wear.


“THE WARTIME PAPERS OF R.E. LEE”  Edited by Clifford Dowdey & Louise H.
Manarin. Published by Bramhall House; a ca. 1980 reprint of a book first
published in 1961. “A monumental contribution to the literature of the
Civil War. Lee’s official correspondence- letters, orders, dispatches and
battle reports –is complemented by his letters to his family to present a
previously unavailable picture of Lee’s total life during the war”. 
Hardcover, 6"x9.5", 994 pages; dust jacket; light wear, a little soil,
jacket torn slightly at the spine base; text pages a bit age-browned, but
otherwise clean and tight.


“LEE. THE LAST YEARS”  By Charles Bracelen Flood. Published by Houghton
Mifflin in 1981.  “Robert E. Lee, one of the most famous figures in
American history, vanishes after his dramatic surrender at Appomattox. In
fact, he live only another five years, during which time he did more than
any other American to heal the wounds between North and South during the
tempestuous postwar period. Emerging from the agony of final defeat to
accept an offer of the presidency of nearly defunct Washington College
(renamed Washington and Lee University upon his death), Lee used his new
position to create a model educational institution and to exemplify for a
deeply wounded nation the healing powers of compassion, generosity, and
conciliation.”.  Hardcover, 6.5"x9.5", 308 pages; black & white
illustrations; dust jacket; light wear, a little soil, but otherwise clean
and tight.


“MURDER MOST CONFEDERATE. TALES OF CRIMES QUITE UNCIVIL”  Edited by Martin
H. Greenberg. Published by Gramercy Books in 2000.  “These stories, the
majority of which were written for this book, are all set within the
Confederacy. They vary from the war-ravaged city of Richmond, where a
husband and wife run an unusual boarding house, to two brothers fighting
on opposite sides and the terrible price one will pay for a sense of
happiness. From men and women doing their patriotic duty to rogues and
criminals refining their craft under the cover of combat, the savage side
of war is revealed in these stories”.  Sixteen fictional tales of murder,
mayhem and mystery, set within the Confederacy during and just after the
Civil War. If you like Alfred Hitchcock anthologies and Civil War history,
this is the book for you.  Hardcover, 6.5"x9.5", 273 pages; dust jacket; a
very nice, clean copy, tight.


“CAMPAIGNING WITH GRANT”  By Horace Porter. Published by the Blue and Grey
Press in 1984.  “From April 1864 until the end of the war, Horace Porter
served as lieutenant colonel attached to Ulysses S. Grant’s staff. He
accompanied Grant into the Battle of the Wilderness, Cold Harbor &
Petersburg campaigns, and was there at the final surrender at McLean’s
house. During this time he kept extensive notes of Grant’s conversations,
as well as his own observations of military life”. His memoirs of all
this, first published after the war, are reprinted here with reproductions
of period prints, paintings and illustrations.  Hardcover, 6.5"x9.5", 546
pages; black & white illustrations; dust jacket; light wear, a little
soil, red label on cover but otherwise clean and tight.


“THE CONFEDERATE READER”  ByRichard B. Harwell. Published by The Blue and
Grey Press in 1984. First published in 1957.  A collection of letters,
diary entries, official orders, newspaper stories and other writings, all
telling the story of the Confederacy, year-by-year, in the words of the
men and women who fought on her side.  Hardcover, 6.5"x9.5", 389 pages;
black & white illustrations; dust jacket; light wear, a little soil, red
label on jacket but otherwise clean and tight.


“GEORGE B. McCLELLAN. THE YOUNG NAPOLEON”  By Stephen W. Sears. Published
by Ticknor & Fields in 1988.  “Stephen Sears posits that ‘General
McClellan’s importance in shaping the course of the Union during the Civil
War was matched only by that of President Lincoln and Generals Grant and
Sherman.’ And yet the ‘Young Napoleon’ has been relegated to the shadows
by historians of that great conflict.”  Three-quarters of this book deals
with McClellan’s Civil War service, but there is also a great deal of
material on his early military training and his post-war career as a
politician and eventual service as the Governor of New Jersey.  Hardcover,
6.5"x9.5”, 482 pages, black & white illustrations; dust jacket; the jacket
with a little light wear; else a nice, bright, clean copy.

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The seven books- $40.00, ppd.

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