Search Results: American History: Civil War from pacaritambo books

Blue & Gray Press, 1984. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 2 B&W era photo sections. UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1984-5 Blue & Gray Press large hardcover & dust jacket (in mylar cover), assumed first edition, no printing given. Problem: light tanning to dust jacket edges as well as some light edge wear to top DJ edge. Two B&W era photos sections. As to the publishing date, the only date is 1984. Questions welcome & answered.

Kensington, 2018. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Kensington hardcover (brown boards) and dust jacket (embossed title), first edition, 2nd printing. CONTENT: Based on true events in pre- Civil War America, CSA. Two decades before the Civil War, a middle-class farmer named Samuel Maddox lies on his deathbed. Elsewhere in his Virginia home, a young woman named Kitty knows her life is about to change. She is one of the Maddox family's slaves-and Samuel's biological daughter. When Samuel's wife, Mary, inherits her husband's property, she will own Kitty, too, along with Kitty's three small children. Already in her fifties and with no children of her own, Mary Maddox has struggled to accept her husband's daughter, a strong-willed, confident, educated woman who works in the house and has been treated more like family than slave. After Samuel's death, Mary decides to grant Kitty and her children their freedom, and travels… Read More

Scholastic Pess, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. Sepia & duotone era photos illustrate throughout. CONTITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2003 Scholastic hardcover (beige boards with title in gold foil just as on the dust jacket), first edition, first printing. Illustrated with sepia tone era photos and artifacts throughout. The Proclamation is reprinted on the back cover. PROBLEM: 2 corners are lightly bumped. CONTENT: The McKissacks introduce young readers to the pivotal events leading up to and including the long awaited and glorious Days of Jubilee. For two and a half centuries African-American slaves sang about, prayed for, and waited on their long anticipated freedom -- a day of Jubilee. But freedom didn't come for slaves at the same time. DAYS OF JUBILEE chronicles the various stages of U.S. emancipation beginning with those slaves who were freed for their service during the Revolutionary War, to those who were freed by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. Using… Read More

Longmeadow Press, 1991. Reprint Printing Unknown. Hardcover. New/New. B&W era photos, media reproductions, & art reproductions. NEW 1991 Longmeadow Press large (& heavy) hardcover (blue boards with gold foil title) and DJ (in mylar jacket), reprint edition. I know the book says it is a reprint edition, but this strikes me more of a facsimile edition. Beautiful wrap-around cover art, but no credit given. Loaded with B&W era photos, media reproductions, and era art reproductions. Originally published in 1903. Questions welcome & answered.

Smithmark, 1994. First Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/As New. B&W era photo section. NO PRIORITY PLEASE. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1994 Smithmark hardcover (teal boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), appears to be a facsimile edition, first printing. B&W era photo section. PROBLEM: 2 tiny "pin holes" dust jacket. IMHO, Longstreet (who often disagreed with Lee's tactics and decisions) is the most interesting of all the CSA generals. Love to hear your comments on this.

Konecky & Konecky, 1994. Reprint Edition Printing Unknown. Hardcover. New/New. B&W maps. UNREAD Konecky & Konecky hardcover & Dust Jacket (in mylar jacket), reprint of the 1956 Bobbs-Merrill first edition. B&W maps. Tiny (really) edge wear to top DJ top edge tips at the fold. The authors premise is that Johnston did not receive credit due him for his work for the Confederacy due to a personally vindictive Jefferson Davis. They set the record straight.

Viking, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2018 Viking hardcover (white boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover - all white books need protection), first edition, first printing. PROBLEM: Small remainder dot bottom edges at spine. CONTENT: The New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts the racism that shapes us and argues for white America to reckon with its past. A passionate, personal, urgent book from the man who sparked a national debate. "There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence for it." When Mitch Landrieu addressed the people of New Orleans in May 2017 about his decision to take down four Confederate monuments, including the statue of Robert E. Lee, he struck a nerve nationally, and his speech has now been heard or seen by millions across the country. In his first book, Mayor Landrieu discusses his personal journey on race as well as the path he took to making the decision to remove the… Read More

Random House, 1985. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/Very Good+. B&W era photo section. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1985 Random House hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), 1st edition, 2nd printing. The problem is basically the DJ - edge wear top edge with a strange tiny "chip" at front fold on the "faux" metallic paper. Bookstore embossed stamp. B&W era photo section. End pages are decorated with a map of Davis's flight plan. CONTENT: When Jefferson Davis and his cabinet fled Richmond during the closing days of the Confederacy, they sought to avoid capture and continue the war. Of course it was in vain. Davis and his family were captured. The Union warders treated him shabbily. The South saw him as a hero, a martyr for the Lost Cause. THE LONG SURRENDER contrasts two of history's most significant figures, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee, and shows how profoundly their contrasting views of the New South affected modern American attitudes.

Hill and Wang, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W map of the "Riot" by Jeffrey Ward. CONDITION: NEW 2013 Hill & Wang hardcover (tan boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. B&W map of the "riot" area. CONTENT: An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history. In May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of racial violence that saw whites rampage through the city's black neighborhoods. By the time the fires consuming black churches and schools were put out, forty-six freed people had been murdered. Congress, furious at this and other evidence of white resistance in the conquered South, launched what is now called Radical Reconstruction, policies to ensure the freedom of the region's four million blacks?and one of the most remarkable experiments in American history. This is a portrait of a Southern city that opens an entirely new view onto the Civil War and its aftermath.… Read More

Basic Civitas Books, 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W era photo section; Family Tree chart. CONDITION: NEW 2016 Basic Civitas Books hardcover (gold boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Great B&W era photos (late 1870s mostly) section. CONTENT: Starting with a photograph and some writings left by her grandmother, Thulani Davis goes looking for the "white folk" in her family-a Scots-Irish family of cotton planters unknown to her-and uncovers a history far richer and stranger than she had ever imagined. When Davis's grandmother died in 1971, she was writing a novel about her parents, Mississippi cotton farmers who met after the Civil War: Chloe Curry, a former slave from Alabama, married with several children, and Will Campbell, a white planter from Missouri who had never marriedIn this compelling intersection of genealogy, memoir, and Reconstruction history, Davis picks up where her grandmother left off. Her journey takes her from… Read More

Black Dog & Leventhal, 1998. New Edition 4th Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W & sepia era photos, cartoon repros. CONDITION: NEW (UNREAD) 1998 Black Dog & Leventhal large hardcover (black boards, 2 lbs.) Included in this edition are B&W and sepia era photos plus political cartoons of the day. Epilogue by Caroline Kennedy & John F. Kennedy, Jr. CONTENT: The Illustrated Edition: The Pulitzer-Prize winning account of men of principle, integrity and bravery in American politics is now available in a handsome, illustrated format . Eight men who served in the United States Senate were selected by John F. Kennedy as models of virtue and courage under pressure. (From the Epilogue by John Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy) All our lives, people approached us to say, "Your father changed my life." They go on to describe their own commitment to public service, community involvement, and work for social justice John F. Kennedy inspired one generation, and now others, to believe that politics can be a noble… Read More

California Historical Society, 1969. 1st Edition Assumed 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 3 small B&W era photo sections. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1969 California Historical Society hardcover & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, assumed first printing. There is, of course, some light edge wear -most of it to dust jacket (3 small nics). CONTENT: Sherman had a natural gift for writing, and his letters are informative, interesting, and enlivened by a mature sense of humor. As senior resident partner of a banking house in San Francisco (1853-1857), Sherman wrote frequent reports to the home office in St. Louis, detailing not only routine business of the bank but also pertinent information about political and financial developments in the city (including the Vigilance Committee of 1856), the gold-mining areas, and the state capital. The letters were written to Henry Smith Turner, a partner and a close personal friend, and are characterized by a greater personal… Read More