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I am selling used books. The condition for each item will be noted separately below. I have no way to post pictures of the items. Pictures provided are stock images. Proceeds of the sale will go to the Salt Creek Civil War Round Table for battlefield preservation. The price for each item will be noted separately below and includes postage. Payment by check made out to Salt Creek CWRT. If you would note "On-line book sale" on the memo line, it would be of help to the treasurer.
If you have questions or see something you'd like, please send me a PM (click on envelope icon in blue menu bar above).
Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865, edited by Brooks D. Simpson and Jean V. Berlin, part of the Civil War America series edited by Gary W. Gallagher, copyright 1999, the University of North Carolina Press, 948 pages. This is a book club edition. Hardbound with intact dust jacket, solid binding and clean text. Not ex-library. Overall condition: Very good. Price: $15.00
Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer by Jeffry D. Wert, copyright 1996, Simon & Schuster, 462 pages. Hardbound with intact dust jacket, solid binding and clean text. Not ex-library. Overall condition: Excellent. Price: $15.00.
Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861 by Harold Holzer, copyright 2008, Simon and Schuster, 623 pages. Hardbound with intact dust jacket, solid binding and clean text. Not ex-library. Overall condition: Excellent. Price: $10.00.
Bullet and Shell: The Civil War as the Soldier Saw It by George F. Wilson. This edition is copyright 2000 by Smithmark Publishers, 454 pages. Per the dust jacket, this is a reprint of an 1884 book. The author was a war correspondent and veteran of the 5th and 146th regiments of New York Volunteers. He served in the Army of the Potomac, the Army of the Shenandoah and the Army of the Cumberland. Illustrations are from sketches of actual scenes by Edwin Forbes. Hardbound with intact dust jacket, solid binding and clean text. Not ex-library. Very light gray smudge on bottom page edges. Overall condition: Very good. Price: $5.00.
Spirits of the Civil War: A Guide to the Ghosts and Hauntings of America's Bloodiest Conflict by Troy Taylor. This edition is copyright 2007 by Barnes & Noble by arrangement with the author whose original copyright was 1999. 344 pages. Hardbound with intact dust jacket, solid binding and clean text. Not ex-library. Overall condition: Excellent. Price: $5.00.
The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson by Edward A. Moore from the Collector's Library of the Civil War reprinted in 1983 by Time-Life Books from the 1907 edition, 315 pages. This book is bound in leather with gilt lettering on the spine and cover. There is a bookplate semi-attached on the inside cover and an attached red ribbon page maker at the top of the spine. Hardbound with solid binding. No dust jacket. Clean text except for name of original owner written in blue ink at the top of the copyright page. Not ex-library. Overall condition: Very good. Price: $10.00.
Freedom's Champion: Elijah Lovejoy by Paul Simon, copyright 1994, Southern Illinois University Press, 206 pages. The author was a newspaper publisher for 18 years in Madison County, Illinois, where the city of Alton is located. He went on to be a US senator representing Illinois. Paperback with solid binding but one crease in spine. Text is clean. Not ex-library. Overall condition: Very good. Price: $6.00.
Gunboat! Small Ships at War by Bryan Perrett. This edition was published in 2003 by Castle Books by arrangement with Orion Publishing Group, Ltd., in London. Author's copyright was 2000. Despite the illustration on the dust jacket, only Chapter 4 deals with the American Civil War. The book is about the uses of this type of ship at various times and in various settings, so more for a reader interested in general naval history rather than strictly Civil War history. Hardbound with intact dust jacket, solid binding and clean test. Not ex-library. Overall condition: Good. Price: $7.00.
This Army Does Not Retreat: The Memoirs of General George H. Thomas by Jack M. Zackin, copyright 2016, 265 pages. Entries for this book at AbeBooks indicate that it was published through the CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. This is a NOVEL/FICTION. Paperback, solid binding with no creases in spine but a small chip at the top of the spine, and clean text. Not ex-library. Overall condition: Very good. Price: $8.00.
If you have questions or see something you'd like, please send me a PM (click on envelope icon in blue menu bar above).
Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865, edited by Brooks D. Simpson and Jean V. Berlin, part of the Civil War America series edited by Gary W. Gallagher, copyright 1999, the University of North Carolina Press, 948 pages. This is a book club edition. Hardbound with intact dust jacket, solid binding and clean text. Not ex-library. Overall condition: Very good. Price: $15.00
Bullet and Shell: The Civil War as the Soldier Saw It by George F. Wilson. This edition is copyright 2000 by Smithmark Publishers, 454 pages. Per the dust jacket, this is a reprint of an 1884 book. The author was a war correspondent and veteran of the 5th and 146th regiments of New York Volunteers. He served in the Army of the Potomac, the Army of the Shenandoah and the Army of the Cumberland. Illustrations are from sketches of actual scenes by Edwin Forbes. Hardbound with intact dust jacket, solid binding and clean text. Not ex-library. Very light gray smudge on bottom page edges. Overall condition: Very good. Price: $5.00.
Freedom's Champion: Elijah Lovejoy by Paul Simon, copyright 1994, Southern Illinois University Press, 206 pages. The author was a newspaper publisher for 18 years in Madison County, Illinois, where the city of Alton is located. He went on to be a US senator representing Illinois. Paperback with solid binding but one crease in spine. Text is clean. Not ex-library. Overall condition: Very good. Price: $6.00.
Gunboat! Small Ships at War by Bryan Perrett. This edition was published in 2003 by Castle Books by arrangement with Orion Publishing Group, Ltd., in London. Author's copyright was 2000. Despite the illustration on the dust jacket, only Chapter 4 deals with the American Civil War. The book is about the uses of this type of ship at various times and in various settings, so more for a reader interested in general naval history rather than strictly Civil War history. Hardbound with intact dust jacket, solid binding and clean test. Not ex-library. Overall condition: Good. Price: $7.00.
This Army Does Not Retreat: The Memoirs of General George H. Thomas by Jack M. Zackin, copyright 2016, 265 pages. Entries for this book at AbeBooks indicate that it was published through the CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. This is a NOVEL/FICTION. Paperback, solid binding with no creases in spine but a small chip at the top of the spine, and clean text. Not ex-library. Overall condition: Very good. Price: $8.00.
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