AMERICANA 50 65LONGSTREET, James. From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America. Philadelphia, 1896. Thick octavo, original three-quarter brown morocco. $6800 First edition of Longstreet’s important Civil War history, with frontispiece portrait, 15 maps and 30 illustrations of battle sites and portraits, in publisher’s deluxe three-quarter morocco binding. “Longstreet’s tome is a milestone of great importance in Confederate literature. It tells the story of the war in the first person from one of the great generals of American history, allows him to make his case, and at least on some accounts quiets the armchair strategists who have faulted Longstreet too severely. In the main, Longstreet is correct with most of his assertions” (Eicher 277). “Longstreet’s reminiscences are basic to any study of the Army of Northern Virginia” (In Tall Cotton 114). This copy with 15 maps instead of 16: bound without map titled “Position of Confederate First Corps, Gettysburg Third Day.” Containing map titled “Battle of Sharpsburg” at page 242 instead of page 246 as in Contents listing, no priority. Gift inscription. Interior fine; light expert restoration to original morocco. A handsome near-fine copy. “For The Sweetest, Wisest Soul Of All My Days And Lands…”: First Edition Of Whitman’s Drum-Taps, Important Preferred Issue With Sequel For Lincoln, Containing The First Printing Of “When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom’d” 66WHITMAN, Walt. Drum-Taps. BOUND WITH: Sequel to Drum-Taps. When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom’d. New York and Washington, 1865-6. 12mo, original brown cloth, custom box. $12,500 First edition, the important and preferred second issue, one of only 1000 copies, with the first appearance of the sequel celebrating Lincoln containing “Lilacs” and “O Captain! My Captain!” Drum-Taps “stands among the nation’s finest poems” (ANB). Upon the death of Lincoln, Whitman delayed the printing of Drum-Taps and added “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” a “profoundly moving dirge for the martyred Lincoln” (CHAL), with separate pagination, table of contents, and title page. Armorial bookplate of bibliographer and poet Percy L. Babington. Text clean, inner paper hinges expertly reinforced, minuscule rubs to cloth extremities. A near-fine copy. “A Milestone Of Great Importance In Confederate Literature”
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