Author: JOHNSON, W. Fletcher
Title: Life of W. Tecumseh Sherman, Late Retired General, U.S. A.
Description: N.p. Edgewood Publishing Company, 1891. Hardcover. 8vo. Original green cloth with ornate gilt lettering and black and gilt pictorial stamping and decorations. 607pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, numerous full-page plates, green floral endpapers. Very good. Mild binding wear, though internally near fine, with the usual text block light age toning; quaint late19th-century bookplate on front pastedown. An exceptionally tight and nice first edition of this bestselling biography of the Union officer by this noted and prolific author and journalist (1857-1931) -- though while popular and typical of its day, Civil War scholar Robert W. Johannsen reviewed it as "An uncritical study, rather badly organized and containing testimonials to Sherman's greatness from many prominent individuals." NEVINS II, 67. .
Keywords: Civil War
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Title: Life of W. Tecumseh Sherman, Late Retired General, U.S. A.
Description: N.p. Edgewood Publishing Company, 1891. Hardcover. 8vo. Original green cloth with ornate gilt lettering and black and gilt pictorial stamping and decorations. 607pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, numerous full-page plates, green floral endpapers. Very good. Mild binding wear, though internally near fine, with the usual text block light age toning; quaint late19th-century bookplate on front pastedown. An exceptionally tight and nice first edition of this bestselling biography of the Union officer by this noted and prolific author and journalist (1857-1931) -- though while popular and typical of its day, Civil War scholar Robert W. Johannsen reviewed it as "An uncritical study, rather badly organized and containing testimonials to Sherman's greatness from many prominent individuals." NEVINS II, 67. .
Keywords: Civil War
Price: US$ 95.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 43114
- Book number: 43114
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