Stackpole General Edward (13 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Fair condition soft cover, some wear to cover and spine, tanning to pages, foxing to pages, bend to book, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine+. Book Club Edition. This is a Very Solid & square Brown spine on a green board Classic Civil War Hardback in Near Fine+ condition with a Very Good++ jacket. Original c1956. This printing 1969, Book Club Edition. This book Looks Very lightly read! The cover is very bright and Very clean. The edges are nice with just a touch of a bottom spine end wrinkle. The pages are tight & bright & unmarked, No names. The jacket is very bright & very clean with Very light shelf wear and little top edge wrinkle. Illustrated. 342 pages. #22322-124.

Cloth Spine, Paper Boards. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Not Stated [1980's?]. A step-by-step retelling of the battle, with maps, photos, firsthand accounts etc. 342pp, illus, maps. Mint copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Very light shelfwear to hardboards with sharp tips, very tight, very clean, no markings, dustcover has very light shelfwear; 9 X 6 X 1 inches; 342 pages.

Soft Cover - Stapled. Condition: Very Good. First. pp.96 clean tight copy with some rubbing to covers minuscule edge and corner wear front cover shows picture of battle Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: G; edges some wear; owners ini. B&W photos and drwgs (illustrator). Trade pb.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Book Club Edition. BCE,AS NEW BOOK IN AS NEW DJ.

Hard cover dust wrapper, xxiv/342pp, b&w photos/illustrations/maps. Light shelf wear; near fine. Prologue by Robert H Fowler. A step-by-step retelling of the battle. With maps, photos and firsthand accounts. This book has long been regarded as the classic treatment of one of the greatest, most fascinating, most decisive battles in history.

Hard cover dust wrapper, 297pp, b&w photos, maps. Dw spine sunned, foxing, acid tape stains on eps and dw flaps. A good-very good copy. Union General Ambrose Burnside's plan to cross the Rappahannock River on 12 December 1862 and surprise Robert E. Lee's overextended Army of Northern Virginia was a brilliant one, but the plan for a river crossing in winter was overly ambitious, and Burnside was one of the unluckiest generals of the war. What followed bore more resemblance to the doomed assaults of World War I than to a Civil War battle, as Burnside refused to call off the attack and fed more troops into the slaughter.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Wally Walgren (illustrator). 1st Edition. Front cover shows playful and high spirited Guardsman looking eerily like Adolf Hitler strutting in uniform ( remember: he had just won German presidency in January 1933). Here two swank ladies are admiring him while kid in trooper outfit carries wooden sword and walks behind. Cover artist was A. Wally Walgren who began his career as a cartoonist with the Philadelphia Public Ledger and the Washington Post . He also does a full page racy cartoons on pages 12,18, 20 and 26. Articles on aviation, famous Guard regiments, history of the NG, drill attendance, misc. topics, 32pps, ads. No meaning given for meaning of the cover art. Frameable.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Brady, Matthew (illustrator). 1st Edition. Gray boards with red and blue lettering along the spine. FIRST EDITION. Maps for end papers. Previous owner's bookplate on the front end paper. Numerous illustrations by contemporary engravings and photographs and strategic and tactical maps. Photographs by Matthew Brady and other great photographers. There is light foxing throughout. The DJ is almost torn in half and has several other tears. The DJ is not covered with mylar. 384 pages.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in wrappers. Soiling to front and back panels. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Pamphlet. Condition: Near Fine. Fourth Printing. 8vo. 21.5 c.m. x 14.5 c.m. Staple-bound pamphlet. [2], 3-96 pp. Off-white wrappers printed in blue and black with a photographs from Walter Lane on the front wrapper. Illustrated with several full-page maps and photographs, as well as in-text images. Divided into three parts: The Tour Guide, Narrative of the Battle, and Organization, Strengths, Losses. The Centennial edition. Minor wear to the extremities.