The American Iliad: The Epic Story of the Civil War as Narrated by Eyewitnesses and Contemporaries
by EISENSCHIML, Otto, and NEWMAN, Ralph G
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. (10pp), 720pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, maps. Very good. Spine lightly sunned. Tight, handsome first edition of this thick anthology, signed by both compilers: On the front flyleaf, Eisenschiml pens "Sincerely, / Otto Eisenschiml" in black ink, and below this his co-compiler adds "And / Ralph Newman" in blue ink. Scholar E.B. Long, who compiled a "Pictorial Chronicle" volume to accompany a 1956 Grosset & Dunlap edition of this title, reviewed this first edition as "One of the first of the modern 'readers;' composed largely of eyewitness accounts of military events...." NEVINS II, 12.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38930
- Title
- The American Iliad: The Epic Story of the Civil War as Narrated by Eyewitnesses and Contemporaries
- Author
- EISENSCHIML, Otto, and NEWMAN, Ralph G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1947
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Civil War;
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