My Confession by Chamberlain Samuel E (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good, clean, tight condition - faded dark spot on top of cover. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. x, 301 pages illustrations (some color) portrait, map, facsimile 25 cm. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Wear to dj. With 55 illustrations and decorations including 16 pages in full color. Minor shelf wear, chip missing from dj. "The sun rose bright and clear.on the morning of the 23rd of February, 1847. it shone on a scene well calculated to stir one's blood to a fever heat with warlike enthusiasm and make a coward brave.twenty thousand men clad in new uniforms, belts, as white as snow, brasses and arms burnished until they glittered like gold and silver. Their Cavalry.some six thousand cavaliers.advanced towards us as if they would ride down out little band and finish the battle at one blow." This was the beginning of the famous Mexican War battle of Buena Vista, as seen by a seventeen-year-old U.S. dragoon who was in the thick of it. Half scoundrel, half hero, a lad who gloried in a fray, either personal duel or large-scale battle, with an eye for a pretty girl and talents that would have made Don Juan, Casanova, Gil Blas and d'Artagnan envious, he was also something of an artist and considerable of a writer. And he left behind him when he died (years later, a respected Civil War general) this matchless piece of Americana, his personally illustrated and illuminated account of his extraordinary adventures and youthful escapades just before, during and after the Mexican War. Here are the stories of battles, of love and dalliance, of duels, chases, escapes, murder, of massacres, ghosts, wild rides and gay fiestas, of the butchery, cruelty and barbarous punishment as well as the gallantry, heroism and glamour that characterized the Mexican War. Here are unparalleled glimpses of real heroes and villains such as General Zachary Taylor and Santa Anna, and of a number of young officers later to win fame in another war, including Captain R. E. Lee and his fellow officer, Captain Jefferson Davis. Here is a scalp-tingling account of young Chamberlain's postwar adventures with a gang of notorious outlaws. Here, in short, are the very sight and sound and smell of an almost neglected chunk of American history. Now brought to light after more than one hundred years, this unique document will surely excite nation wide interest and delight as a classic of picaresque adventure. The manuscript has been checked and rechecked by experts for accuracy and authenticity. Less than one-fifth of the book appeared in Life in three installments in July and August, 1956."--BOOK JACKET.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Illustrated by The Author (illustrator). Book cover has a bit of edge wear. Spine is tilted. Name written in pencil on front endpage. Dust jacket is heavily worn, with creases, tears, and small holes. Multiple pieces of tape are holding the dust jacket together on the inside. The price on the inside flap has been crossed out with pencil.

Hardcover. 8vo. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st edition. This first edition has boards that are quarter bound with red and blue linen. Edges are straight with pointed corners. small gold illustration present on lower corner of front board. Spine is uncreased with gold titling. Edges are rubbed with a small scratch present near the head. Text block is square. Binding is firm. 301p. Matching end pages remain clean. Includes 8 tipped in glossy pages of colored illustrations just after page 86. Page 237 seems to have been folded at the bottom corner when originally cut, when unfolded the edges stick out of the text block. This does not affect the legibility of text. Dust Jacket is intact with bold titling and is clipped. Covers have overall handling wear present of creased and torn edges that look to have been repaired with tape at some point.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and spine strip. Dust jacket wrapped in protective mylar sleeve. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 2.1.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 2.1.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. No Statement of Printing. A Good copy (small 1957 owner's name) in blue and red cloth, in a price-clipped Good dust jacket with shallow edge-wear. Book and jacket share a significant but hidden flaw: damp-staining to the front panel (visible only on the verso) with damping also visible to the red cloth of the front cover. No damping to the text block. A clean/unmarked copy within, and not ex-library. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of Chamberlain's harrowing autobiographical account of his travels during the 1840s, especially his service in the MexicanAmerican War and his adventures with the Glanton gang, which he wrote between 1855 and 1861. The account also informed the narrative and characters of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian;  the novel's protagonist, known only as "the kid", is said to be loosely based on Chamberlain. Originally published in a highly truncated format in Life Magazine, this book is the first published appearance of his full manuscript, with 55 illustrations and decorations including 15 pages in full color. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. Publisher's original blue cloth boards over red cloth spine, lettered in gilt; illustrated endpapers, illustrations throughout, pp. x, 302. A near fine copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains sound, minimal wear to boards, internally clean and fine. Jacket shows some general wear and rubbing, a few tape reinforcements to verso, protected in archival mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Author(s): Samuel E. Chamberlain Title: My Confession Publication: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1956 Edition: First Edition Description: Octavo, 301pp., publisher's blue boards, bound in red cloth binding with blue and gold details. No statement of printing, as required for first edition. First state dust jacket with price intact. First trade edition and first printing. Autobiographical telling of the author s own account (illustrated by him as well) of his adventures in the 1840 s including his service as a soldier in the Mexican-American war. Written between 1855 1861 this is Chamberlains telling of his affiliation with the Glanton gang (John Joel Glanton) and our only historical reference to Judge Holden, fictionalized in Cormac McCarthys Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West. McCarthy draws heavily from the book and by all accounts is considered to be factually accurate with many of the battles and the details being confirmed. However, the only source to date that points to the Judge as an actual person is from Chamberlain s account in this book. Chamberlain would later become warden of the state prisons in MA & CT. He kept painting and was well known for his landscape depictions of the Mexican-American War. A sizable number reside in the San Jacinto Museum of History. He was a member of the first U.S. Dragoons and fought at the Battle of Buena Vista in February of 1847 as well as many other battles in Mexico. In 1849 he was declared a deserter and by 1954 had returned home to raise a family in Boston. He was wounded on 6 occasions during the American Civil War, Commanded as Colonel, an all African-American unit and was in 1865 nominated by President Lincoln to receive the rank of Brevet Brigadier General, U.S. Volunteers, later confirmed by the senate. VG book, completely clean of names, writing and name plates within. Brief foxing. Sharp corners, tight, straight spine indicating it was rarely read. Trace toning, spine ends lightly bumped. Jacket in VG with trace toning to spine, some wear at the spine ends and occasional edge wear. Minimal rubbing. Not price clipped.

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Mexican War 1846-1848, personal narratives) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.