[Rarebooks] FS: Alexander Stephens's Account of the Civil War

[Bob Petrilla]

Stephens, Alexander H.  A CONSTITUTIONAL VIEW OF THE LATE WAR BETWEEN THE
STATES; it's Causes, Character, Conduct and Results presented in a series
of Colloquies at Liberty Hall.  In Two Volumes.  Philadelphia: National
Publishing Co., (1868-1870).  First edition thus.

Two volumes, bound as one, thick octavo. 654pp with index, engraved
frontispiece view and six portraits + 827pp with index, 9 engraved
portraits, and facsimiles of two Lincoln autograph letters signed and one
Alexander Stephens ALS, and a Map of Manassas facing page 472.  Bound in
half-calf and marbled boards, decorated spine panels, black leather labels,
marbled endpapers and edges; boards moderately rubbed, spotty foxing at
plates.  9.5" x 6".

[Nevins, Civil War Books, II-91: "An elaborate, legalistic argument to
vindicate the South; considerably more pro-Confederate in tone than the
author was as Vice President during the war."  Howes, US-iana, S938: "Most
elaborate--and best--argument for the constitutional validity of the
doctrine of state sovereignty and the right of secession."]  $400.00

Usual trade terms.  Postpaid in US.



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