Da Capo Press, 1998. Trade Paperback. 534 pages. Reprint edition. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Brilliantly weaving together eyewitness accounts, letters, memories, newspaper articles, and military reports into a riveting narrative, this definitive biography reveals the personality of William Clarke Quantrill (1837-1865) and the events that transformed a......
The History Press, 2012. Trade Paperback. 126 pages. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Missouri ranks third in the number of Civil War battles fought on its soil. Although some sizable actions were fought in the state, most of the battles were the result of the intense guerrilla activity.....
Morningside House, Inc., 1988. Hardcover. 311 pages. Short writings about the American Civil War by Missouri women who were there. A very good copy; no dust jacket. Spotting to page block.
Dell Pub. Co., January 1958. Mass Market Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
D. Appleton and Company, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. 572 pages. 15 full-page illustrations, 4 of which are in color. Many with tissue guards. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in decorated green cloth covers with lettering and decorations in gilt on front cover and spine. Spine with mild.....
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. Hardcover. 250 pages. B/W illustrations. Revised and enlarged edition. A very good copy in decorated blue cloth covers with lettering and decorations in gilt. Gilt mostly gone from spine. Gilt on front cover still very good. Edge and corner wear. Foxing to endpapers.
Oxford University Press, May 2012. Trade Paperback. The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, more than 2 million refugees, and the destruction (in modern dollars) of more than $700 billion.....
Mariner Books, March 2017. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). In the New York Times bestseller The Immortal Irishman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan illuminates the dawn of the great Irish American story, with all its twists and triumphs, through the life of one heroic man. A dashing young.....
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 166 pages. Chapter headings for each year of the war with supporting documents as a bibliography. First edition (first printing). Very good in color illustrated wappers (paperback).
n.p. [?National Union Association], 1864. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 16 pages. A pro-Union speech during the latter stages of Civil War. Charles D. Drake (1811-1892) was a 'Radical Republican' who from 1861 advocated for the immediate and uncompensated emancipation of slaves. After the War he was U.S. Senator from Missouri.....
Stackpole Books, November 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket with light edge wear. The first-ever biography of the perpetrator of the Centralia and Baxter Springs Massacres, as well as innumerable atrocities during the Civil War in the West.
Ohio University Press, 2009. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 274 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Winner of a 2011 "Distinguished Achievement in Literature" award, Missouri Humanities Council Civil War Missouri stood at the crossroads of America. As the most Southern-leaning state in the Middle West.....
Hill and Wang, January 2010. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Clash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends that economics, more than any other factor, moved the country to war in 1861. Drawing on.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes's.....
Oxford University Press, 2015. Hardcover. Later printing. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought.....
NYU Press, 2010. Trade Paperback. 240 pages. First paperback edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). At its core, the Civil War was a conflict over the meaning of citizenship. Most famously, it became a struggle over whether or not to grant rights to a group that stood.....
Vintage, February 2012. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A gripping and original account of how the Civil War began and a second American revolution unfolded, setting Abraham Lincoln on the path to greatness and millions of slaves on the road to freedom. An epic of courage and heroism.....
Knopf, October 1991. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Da Capo Press, 2014. Trade Paperback. 354 pages. Very good in wrappers (paperback). In this riveting, character-driven history, one of our most respected historians traces the diseases in the public mind--the distortions of reality--that destroyed George Washington's vision of a united America and inflicted the tragedy that still divide's the.....
Twodot, Imprint of Globe Pequot, 2007. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 272 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
The Fairfax Press, n.d., ca. 1987. Hardcover. 836 pages. 11 x 15 inches. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Chartwell Books, Inc., 2011. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 256 pages. Oblong format, 10 x 14 inches. First edition thus. Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Photography was still in its infancy when the Civil War broke out in 1861, yet one young man, Mathew B. Brady, had.....
Tess Sales, 2000. Hardcover. Later printing. Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Tess Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 630 pages. Copiously illustrated. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 1994. Hardcover. 1371 pages. Later printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Written and compiled by the nation's leading authorities, with nearly 2,000 photographs in each volume (many published only in these collections).