Author: STREET, James
Title: The CIVIL War: An Unvarnished Account of the Late But Still Lively Hostilities
Description: New York, Dial Press, 1953. Hardcover. Illustrations by John Alan Maxwell. Small 4to. Grey cloth spine with black lettering and blue textured paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 144pp. Frontispiece, line drawings, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit rubbed and edgeworn, with a few small chips at head and tail of spine; circular blind-embossed ownership imprint on half-title page. A tight and attractive first edition. Noted Civil War historian E.B. Long raised his eyebrows over Street's irreverent approach: "Obviously, a hastily prepared, debunking account; Street rambles amusingly and widely over many favorite subjects." NEVINS II, 29. .

Keywords: Civil War


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