CABLE, George Washington

Archive of Letters and Manuscripts Relating to Cable's Book Kincaid's Battery

Northampton, MA, 1902 - 1903. Letters and Manuscripts. Superb collection of material by this former Confederate soldier and important, neglected writer who paved the way for modern Southern writers such as Faulkner and Welty in dealing with the pervasive issue of race. Includes 9 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs) to Confederate officer Alexander Porter Morse; 1 AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to publisher Charles Scribner; 2 AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS SIGNED (AMSs) addressed to Morse's children; and 2 TYPED LETTERS, unsigned, from Morse to Cable; along with 5 envelopes addressed in Cable's hand. The letters mostly concern Cable's work and his interest in Morse's experiences in the Civil War. The letter from Cable to Scribner is one of introduction for Morse. Some excerpts: "I have begun another cavalry story of New Orleans and Vicksburg, and I want to sit you down in my library and make you talk. Oh dear! how can I wait? And I must see that book of Howell Carter [A CAVALRYMAN'S REMINISCENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR]." "I thank you for the little sketch and picture of General Pickett, which I return with this letter. Gettysburg would be quite too much out of focus for my story." "I am today expressing your invaluable diary back to you. It has given me many a good point and I wish I might see it again when I get deeper into the actual writing of my story -- the final writing, I mean.. I hope you will like 'Strong Hearts.'" "I have your letter of the 17 and am enjoying the manual of Artillery Tactics greatly. It delights me that I have chosen my hero from this so highly scientific arm of the services, an arm which has been so oddly overlooked by the story-tellers." "I am delighted with 'The Cannoneer' [Augustus Caesar Buell: THE CANNONEER: RECOLLECTIONS OF SERVICE IN THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC]. It gives me points already though I have just received it and have not looked into it more than four pages deep.. I wish you could see how I have changed to opening of my story. I have it right this time, and this again I owe, in degree, to you -- to your patient and interested attention to my reading of the first draft." Included in this archive are the first two pages of that first draft which differ greatly from the published version, both written in a very small hand and INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Cable at the bottom of each page, both apparently to the son and daughter of Morse who are described by Morse in his letters to Cable as fiercely competing to read a copy of Cable's THE CAVALIER that was in the Morse home. KINCAID'S BATTERY, about a Confederate army artillery unit set in New Orleans, was not published until 1908. Some tears and wrinkles; two letters are laid down on cardboard. Very Good condition overall Alexander Porter Morse received notoriety during the Civil War as a prisoner of war on the "Maple Leaf," a civilian steamboat chartered by the Union Army to transport prisoners north. The Confederate prisoners overtook the crew of the vessel in June 1863 along with Union soldiers and officers on board. Seventy-one of the nearly 100 Confederate prisoners, including nineteen-year-old Lt. Morse, managed to escape off the steamboat, ultimately making it safely to Richmond. After the war, Morse relocated to Washington, DC to become a journalist and correspondent, eventually earning a PhD from Princeton University in 1885. He was the author of several law books and represented Judge Howard Ferguson in the famous Plessy v. Ferguson case.

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Book number: 020615

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Confederacy, Civil War, Louisiana, Alexander Porter Morse, New Orleans, 19th Century American Literature, Association Copy, George W. Cable, Archive, Southern Literature, 19th Century Literature Signed Civil War Literature: American 19th Century

Cable, George Washington

Bonaventure: A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana

New York, Int. Assoc. of Newspapers . 1901. Hardcover. 314p. Good condition .

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Book number: 015266

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Literature Fiction

Cable, George Washington

Bonaventure: A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. 314p. BAL 2346. Very good condition .

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Book number: 23722

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: American Literature Fiction First Editions

Cable, George Washington

Bylow Hill

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. 1st edition 1st printing. Hardcover. 215p. illus. 6 color plates. Margaret Armstrong binding. BAL 2371 . Ill.: F. C. Yohn. Very good condition .

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Book number: 011935

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Armstrong, Margaret F.C. Yohn Literature Fiction First Editions Illustrated Books

Cable, George Washington

The Cavalier

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. 1st printing. Hardcover. 311p. BAL 2368 . Ill.: Howard Chandler Christy. Good condition, spine faded, slightly cocked .

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Book number: 17652

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Howard Chandler Christy Literature Fiction First Editions

CABLE,GEORGE WASHINGTON ; WILLIAM PITTENGER; ADOLPHUS E RICHARDS; BASIL WILSON DUKE; ORLANDO BOLIVAR WILLCOX; THOMAS H HINES; FRANK E MORAN; W H SHELTON; JOHN TAYLOR WOOD;

FAMOUS ADVENTURES AND PRISON ESCAPES OF THE CIVIL WAR;

New York, The Century Co.. 1893, First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo. Book, orig. 2 tone gilt cover, gilt spine, t.e.g. pp. 338 , illustrated, frontispiece, numerous black & white illustrations, edge wear, damage to top of spine, small ink stamp of former owner on the front free end-paper, ink sig of former owner across center of title page, tight, clean internally.CONTENTS; War diary of a Union woman in the South / ed. by G.W. Cable -- Locomotive chase in Georgia / by W. Pittenger -- Mosby's "Partizan rangers" / by A.E. Richards -- Romance of Morgan's roughriders: The raid / by B.W. Duke. Capture / by O.B. Willcox -- Excape / by T.H. Hines -- Colonel Rose's tunnel at Libby prison / by F.E. Moran -- Hard road to travel out of Dixie / by W.H. Shelton -- Escape of General Breckenridge / by J.T. Wood. Good/No Dust Jacket.

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Book number: MT_0518

Catalogue: Military

Keywords: Civil War, Us Military, Americana, Prisons, Americana, Breckinridge, John C. -- (John Cabell), -- 1821-1875,Libby Prison. , Confederate States of America. -- Army -- Prisons. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal Narratives. , Unite

Cable, George Washington

"John March, Southerner" (chapters I-VII) in Scribner's (January, 1894)

First Edition. 0 pp. Near fine in original wrappers with light edgewear and a chip at the foot of the spine.

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Book number: b6294

CABLE, George Washington

Old Creole Days

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated brown cloth. BAL 2330: First Printing. First state without the ads of Cable's first book. Estimates of the number of copies printed have ranged from 100 to about 3500 with 1000 copies being likely. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED to "Mrs. W. R. Harmount/with the compliments of the author/G. W. Cable/New Orleans, March 13, 1880." Mrs. Harmount was the wife of W. R. Harmount, a lieutenant in the Union Army who was captured by the Confederates at Chancellorsville and sent to Libby Prison. He also attended the State Convention of the Colored People of Louisiana in January of 1865. Light wear to spine ends; some bubbling to cloth at bottom front corner. Very Good to Near Fine .

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Book number: 020416

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: SIgned, Creoles, First Book, Southern Literature, 19th Century American Literature, Inscribed, 19th Century Literature, George W. Cable Signed First Book 19th Century American Literature Literature: American

CABLE, GEORGE WASHINGTON; A PROLOGUE BY TINKER, EDWARD LAROCQUE; THE SCENES OF CABLE'S ROMANCES BY HEARN, LAFCADIO

Old Creole Days

NY, Heritage Press. 1943. Hard, 8vo. Hard cover in slipcase. Published NY: Heritage Press, 1943. 8vo. xxxi+224pp. illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrove II. Previous owner bookplate on pastedown, else near fine, clean, attractive in very good slipcase with minor wear/scuffing. Near Fine.

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Book number: 009940

Catalogue: Heritage Press

CABLE, GEORGE WASHINGTON

Strong Hearts

New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, 1899. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 180mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 214pp.. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover marked. Pages browning. Spine faded and frayed at top. Hinges weak .

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Book number: bbc003

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction First Editions