[Rarebooks] fs: Governor Hicks of Maryland and the Civil War (Signed), 1901

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(No. 7539 )  Radcliffe, George L. P. (J. M. Vincent, Series Editor). 
GOVERNOR THOMAS H. HICKS OF MARYLAND AND THE CIVIL WAR (JOHNS HOPKINS 
UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE, SERIES XIX NOS. 
11-12).
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1901. First printing, Full cloth, Octavo, 
131 pages. Very good.
      INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Radcliffe on preliminary blank leaf. An 
important study of Governor Hicks and his crucial efforts to shape 
Maryland's loyalties on the eve and in the early years of the Civil War. 
Includes chapters on Hicks's early political career, rumors of plots against 
Lincoln to prevent his inauguration, the outbreak of hostilities, assembling 
the legislature, the rupture between Hicks and the legislature, the 
suppression of the legislature, etc. That Hicks and Lincoln managed to keep 
Maryland in the Union was vital, for if they had failed it would have put 
the United States capital in enemy territory. PRATT, EASTERN SHORE #788. 
Attractively rebound, probably in the 1930s or 1940s, in dark brown cloth 
over boards with decorative endpapers. Gilt-stamped spine title. Evidence of 
a few expert paper repairs. Small binder's label at top fore corner of front 
pastedown. Nice copy, NOT ex-library.    $175.00
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