Cooke, John Esten

Outlines from the Outpost. Edited by Richard Harwell Lakeside Classics 59

Chicago, R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1961. Hardcover. 413p. illus. Very good condition .

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Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Press Books; Lakeside Classics; Us CIVIL War Americana CIVIL War - U.S. Stuart, J.E. B. Autobiography

COOKE, JOHN ESTEN; RICHARD HARWELL (ED)

Outlines from the Outpost

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons / The Lakeside Press, 1961. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion on cover, fore and bottom edges deckle, t.e.g, Illustrated with B&W frontispiece and in-text drawings throughout. Cooke served under J. E. B. Stuart as an officer in the Confederate cavalry. "From the exciting tale of Stuart's ride around McClellan in June 1862 to the poignant picture of the tragic end of a great army, as sublime in exhausted defeat as it was for years in victory, "Outlines from the Outpost" provides for us a vivid and fascinating picture of the Army of Northern Virginia.". Spine very lightly creased, else as new; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. FINE.. The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 59. B&W Illustrations. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. (xxxiv), 413 pp. Fine with No dust jacket as issued .

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Keywords: History; American History; CIVIL War; Military History; Lakeside Classics; Military, Military History & Weapons Biography & Memoir Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

COOKE, John Esten

Outlines from the Outpost

Chicago, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1961. Hardcover. Edited by Richard Harwell. 16mo. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. xxxiv, 413pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrations. Fine. Tight, bright copy of the 59th title in R.R. Donnelley & Sons annual "Lakeside Classics" Christmas keepsake series of historical reprints -- this title not a reprint, however, but a largely-unpublished book of Cooke's about his Confederate army experiences that was never published. .

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Book number: 50470

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: LAKESIDE CLASSICS Civil War

COOKE, John Esten

Outlines from the Outpost

Chicago, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1961. Hardcover. Edited by Richard Harwell. 16mo. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. xxxiv, 413pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrations. Fine. A lovely and tight copy of the 59th title in R.R. Donnelley & Sons annual "Lakeside Classics" Christmas keepsake series of historical reprints -- this title not a reprint, however, but a largely-unpublished book of Cooke's about his Confederate army experiences that was never published. .

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Book number: 50474

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: LAKESIDE CLASSICS Civil War

Cooke, John Esten

Outlines from the Outpost; Edited by Richard Harwell

Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1961. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; xxxiv, 413 including an index and followed by a list of the previously issued Lakeside Classics; illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of JEB Stuart & additional plates and other line drawings; dark blue cloth covered boards, spine lettered in gilt with a gilt top edge. Very good. Recollections of the Civil War from the Southern viewpoint and proximity to J E B Stuart. Very good .

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Book number: 19057

Catalogue: Civil War

COOKE, John Esten

Outlines from the Outpost

Chicago, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1961. Hardcover. Edited by Richard Harwell. 16mo. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. xxxiv, 413pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrations. Fine. A lovely and tight copy of the 59th title in R.R. Donnelley & Sons annual "Lakeside Classics" Christmas keepsake series of historical reprints -- this title not a reprint, however, but a largely-unpublished account of Cooke's about his Confederate army experiences. From the library of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois (1969-81). .

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Book number: 51110

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Keywords: Civil War

COOKE, John Esten

Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes and Adventures of the War

Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1997. Paperback. Introduction by Emory M. Thomas. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xx, 572pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. Second of this softbound edition of this noted 1867 title, which James I. Robertson Jr. (Nevins I, 67) called "Cooke's most famous volume and the closest thing to an autobiography of his war career; much information on Jackson, Stuart, and other Confederate leaders. .

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Book number: 35152

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Civil War

Cooke, John Esten (Philip van Doren Stern, ed.)

Wearing of the Gray, Being Personal Portraits, Scenes and Adventures of the War. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by Philip Van Doren Stern

Bloomington, Indiana University Press, [, 1959. Hardcover. Minor bump at top edge of rear cover; covers faintly rubbed; pages faintly toned; otherwise very good condition in edge-worn dust jacket. ]. 572p. .

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Book number: 52930