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Title: As Luck Would Have It: Chance and Coincidence in the CIVIL War
Description: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1948. Hardcover. Maps by Barbara Long. 8vo. Burgundy cloth, dust jacket. 285pp. Maps. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear, with single large chip at upper left of front panel. First edition, tight and attractive -- boldly signed by both authors and the map illustrator (wife of co-author Long) on the front flyleaf and inscribed by the map illustrator above their signatures to an early member of the Chicago Civil War Round Table: "Inscribed for / R.R. Hughes / with the cordial good / wishes of the authors / Otto Eisenschiml / E.B. Long / Barbara Long / Sept. 25, 1948." Ironically, it's reviewed in Nevins' "Civil War Books" annotated bibliography by -- one of the authors! E.B. Long writes, "How some minor events led to major consequences; authentic but popularly written on the 'if' theme." NEVINS II, 13. .

Keywords: CIVIL WAR; SIGNED Civil War

Price: US$ 60.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 30240

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