Search Results: Civil War from Gene W. Baade Books on the West

NY: Knopf, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 1st printing.4to cloth. 425pp. Illustrated with vintage photos & prints. Index. This copy is the true first Knopf printing of this important book. Fine in a dj which has a couple of crimps to the upper front panel.

Norman: OU, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 1st printing. Cloth. 230pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Maps. On the rear paste down is stamped a small read star. Else fine in good dj with a top edge snag next to the backstrip and some foxing along the bottom edge.

Mallard, NY, 1990, 1990. Hardcover. Fair/Good+. 1st edition? (no price on dj flap), but no book club marks or blindstamps. Oblong 4to cloth. 208pp. Profusely illustrated in color & b/w. Top of back cover at spine was jammed, but still looks pretty good. A good reading copy in dj with tear closed at same location. Oversized.

Edison: Blue & Grey Press, 1983. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st printing thus. Cloth & bds. 308pp. Illus. Index. Bibliography. Maps. Fine in dj.

New York: Mrs. Frank Leslie, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Folio, 11 3/4" x 16 1/2". True first cloth bound edition. 480pp. Profusely illustrated with wood engravings and other types of print images, some double spread, some single page, and some multiple images on a page. The title page continues: "Most Important Events of the Conflict Between the States graphically pictured. Stirring Battle Scenes and Grand Naval Engagements, drawn by special artists on the spot. Portraits of Principal Participants, Military and Civil; Famous Forts; Pathetic Episodes, Etc., Etc. the whole forming An Authentic Pictorial History of the War, by such well-known artists as (extended list) with an introduction by Joseph B. Carr, Major-General. Condition: Re-backed with almost the entire original cloth retained over a new spine -- small loss to original cloth at spine ends. Otherwise original covers and endpapers with new binding that has tightened the text block and made this copy ready for another one hundred… Read More

Chicago: Lakeside Classics, 1974. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine. 1st printings thus of Lakeside Press edition. 12mo cloth. 532 & 634pp. Frontispieces. t.e.g. Trans & edit by Ralph H. Bowen; Intro & Notes by same. "... the reports of a young French observer who traveled in the Northern States and Eastern Canada toward the end of the Civil War." Both volumes fine; not djs as issued.

Dixon, California, U.S.A.: Martin Pearl Pub, 2008. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 1st printing. Pictorial trade wraps. 465pp. Signed by McKinsey on title page. Historical novel. "When a woman researching her family tree discovers that her ancestor changed their family name in the mid-1800s to hide from something or someone, her inquiries trigger some very unexpected responses." "... leads to Abraham Lincoln." Well-written "work of fiction founded upon several alternate theories of history that involve persons alive at the time of the Civil War." Scarce signed.

NY: Falk, 1890. Soft cover. Collectible Very Good. Original cabinet card photograph of Walter Quinton Gresham, born 1832. Gresham was elected to the Indiana Legislature in 1860, served in the Civil War (Vicksburg, Atlanta Campaign, was defeated twice of HR & once for Senate. In 1883 Pres. Arthur appointed him Postmaster General, then Sect'y of the Treasury, and then a U. S. Circuit Judge. Under Pres. Cleveland he became Sect'y of State. Dying in 1895, he is interred at Arlington Nat'l Cemetery. Card is 4 1/4" x 6 1/2", lightly soiled and which the name Benjamin Harrison written in ink on the back. The studio was Falk, 949 Broadway, N.Y.

London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible Good. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped blue cloth. 324pp. Frontispiece & two illus. This appears to be quite a descriptive read of life in Kansas for a brief period. "This is the autobiography of a little girl who went to live, amid almost complete isolation, on the Kansas prairie before it was settled up. It was the time, too, when the States were being torn by Secession and Civil War..." There is a chapter on Quantrill's raid on Lawrence, and material on cattle ranching. Orpen was born in Virginia, moved to Kansas with her family, and then to Ireland. A good+ copy. Couple of small spots on cover and a little dull, but certainly a decent copy unless the buyer wants a near perfect one. No dj. Uncommon.

n.p.: Morningside Bookshop, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth. 234pp. Illus. Index. Hundreds of bibliographic descriptions of the books Walter Neale published. Fine, no dj as issued.

NY: American Bank Note Co, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth titles: 1862 - 1866 - 1882 - 1883 with gilt pictorial "medallion" stating "Freedom and Unity". 91pp. Frontispiece: Colonel Wm. C. Holbrook. First signature/gathering pulled away from binding a little, but still a tight copy. Top/bottom of spine worn. Good+. Quite scarce in 1st edition.

Louisiana, 1990. First Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. No printing stated, so we are tentatively calling this the first edition. 4to pictorial glossy wraps. 48pp. Illus. From the title page: "Catherine Fondren Underwood's restoration of Rosedown Plantation and Gardens in St. Francisville, Louisiana, reflects the beauty and grandeur of a Golden Era in America's 19th Century Plantation Society." While this description seems strangely out of date now, the place was at the time of publication a beauty to behold, and perhaps still is. Laid-in is a color tri-fold with info and maps. Slight curling to bottom corner of some pages and front cover. Near fine.

n.p.: n.p., 1889. First Thus. Soft cover. Good. Original color folder on heavy card stock. Annual reunion "at the Armory Orange, N. J. June 12, 1889. Decorative front cover with American flags in color & ribbon/badge in color. Verso of cover: Menu (with red titles). Page 3: Toasts (red titles) to U. S. & President, to New Jersey & vets, Army & Navy, Army of the Potomac, Volunteers, Armies of the West & Sister Societies, Orator of the Day, Poet of the Day, "Woman-Her Heroic Devotion in the War." Rear: list of officers of the Society: Pres. Maj-Gen. Joshua L Chamberlain, Cor. Sect'y, Treas., Rec. Sect'y, 16 vice presidents. Good condition. Lightly soiled. Back cover has 1" tear at bottom edge (archivally closed). Program was printed by the American Bank Note. Co. Scarce.

New Market: J.M. Bracken, 1995. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Facsimile reprint,1st thus of 1876 book. Cloth. 488pp. Appendix. Folding map. Fine in dj.

NY: Hyperion Books, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 1st printing. Hardbound. 310pp. Enpaper maps of novel's location. Fine, like new in dj.

S. S. Scanton, Hartford, 1866/1867, 1866. Hardcover. Very Good. Green cloth, decoratively embossed & gilt-stamped. 596pp. Engravings. Pencil fos. Essays on 37 Civil War era women who made sacrifices & added to the rich history of the conflict. Also additional essays such as "What We Did At Gettysburg", "The Bloody Flag of Fort Pillow", "Loyal Southern Women", "Women As Soldiers", "Sanitary Laborers". Typical light to heavy foxing on engraving edges outside of tissue guards. Couple of tiny splits head & toe of spine. Vg condition, a much better than average copy. 1866/1867.