The Civil War: A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville; Fredericksburg to Meridian; Red River to Appomattox.
FOOTE, Shelby.
The Civil War: A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville; Fredericksburg to Meridian; Red River to Appomattox.
"The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads": First Editions of Shelby Foote’s Classic Civil War Trilogy; Each Signed by Him
New York: Random House, 1958-1974.
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First editions of the author’s authoritative text on The Civil War. Octavo, three volumes, original publisher’s cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with 141 maps especially designed for these volumes by the author and drawn by George Annand. Fort Sumter to Perryville is signed by the author on an inserted leaf tipped in before the title page, Fredericksburg to Meridian is signed by the author on the half-title page, Red River to Appomattox is a presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, “To Vera Lynn Sprague from Shelby Foote Chicago 13 Dec 74.” Each volume is near fine in a very good to near fine dust jacket. Jacket designs by Jeanyee Wong. Complete sets of the first printings of The Civil War signed by Foote are scarce.
"Shelby Foote remained relatively unknown before his role in Ken Burns’ [documentary film] The Civil War made him a cultural icon. Since that event, Foote has become widely viewed as an authority on the Civil War, and more generally, as a representative of an era and region whose place continues to be central to our country’s understanding of itself" (University of Mississippi). "His mission was to tell what he considered America’s biggest story as a vast, finely detailed, deeply human narrative A model of what military history can be" (New York Times). Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 best non-fiction books of the twentieth century.
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