My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue
Language: English
Published by Harper & Row, 1956
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Red Fox Rare Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Red Fox Rare Books
AbeBooks seller since January 15, 2026
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 193.47
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New York: Harper & Row (1956). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 302 pp. Original crimson red cloth covered boards in half navy cloth, stamped in gold, in original unclipped ($6.00) dust-jacket. Consistent edge wear, a horizontal scratch to front panel. Color loss at spine foot. Some chipping, tears and light loss at edges - particular to spine ends and tips, corners. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Light handling wear present. Light horizontal scratch consistent with that of the jacket across front panel. A few marks and smudges to panels. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust Jacket: Good Hardcover: Very Good “A classic, ribald tale of nineteenth-century life. Perhaps the best written account of a soldier's adventures and misadventures in the Mexican War and its aftermath, this unexpurgated edition is now available for the first time, complete with over 150 of Chamberlain's wonderful textual illustrations reproduced in full color. If you enjoyed the Chamberlain paintings assembled in Sam Chamberlain's Mexican War:The San Jacinto Museum of History Paintings, you will be fascinated by the tale in My Confession that goes with it and beyond it into Chamberlain's adventures with the scalp-hunting Glanton Gang (the story that Cormac McCarthy used as the basis for his celebrated novel Blood Meridian).”.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue
- Author
- Samuel E. Chamberlain
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Publication year
- 1956
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
Red Fox Rare Books
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