Confederate Longstreet, FROM MANASSAS TO APPOMATTOX 1st ed. Gorgeous

  

Longstreet, James, FROM MANASSAS TO APPOMATTOX MEMOIRS OF THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA, Philadelphia: J. Printing ¾ red morocco leather/red marbled paper, t.

5 raised bands w/ bright guilt titling to spine, 8vo (9.375x6), Very Good+/n. What a beauty have we here, professionally re-backed at some point and quite artfully done.

Some light wear to corners and top and bottom edges of boards, very lightly age-toned, no foxing or staining noted. With 15 Maps, in Colors, and Twenty-Eight Portraits and other Illustrations. Apparently re-backed circa 1895, 30 pages of ephemera are pasted down and bound into. The rear of this book including: a blank Lippincott order form for the book, Longstreet newspaper articles defending his performance at Gettysburg against the criticisms of Fitzhugh Lee, an article addressing Longstreet's opinion of Union General Meade, and a true copy of Longstreet's glowing testimony of Dan Sickles and the bold. Maneuver that cost him his leg.

A real stunner this one. One of a kind - and absolutely beautiful, a very distinctive book and marvelous Capture of Tyme!