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1864. DABNEY, R. L., ed. Rev. W. CHALMERS. LIFE OF LIEUT.-GEN. THOMAS J. JACKSON (STONEWALL JACKSON), VOLUME I. London: James Nisbet & Co., 1864. 333 pp. 8vo., red pebbled cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Good externally, spine nicked with small clsoed tear to top of front joint; corners bumped, light soil. Coated brown endpapers with small bookseller's label to front pastedown. Lacks frontispiece portrait. Light foxing and thumbing to title page. A few pages roughtly opened at top edge. Quite scarce, about good overall. Events up to Jackson's resignation in 1862.
Life of Lieut.-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson) by DABNEY, R. L
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DABNEY, R. L. Life of Lieut.-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson). London; James Nisbet & Co., 1864-6. 1st eds. 2 Vols. vi,333;xvi,527pp. Original mounted photograph portrait frontis. Orig. blindstamped cloth, housed in custom cloth slipcase. Rebacked with original spines laid down, cloth sunned, faint scattered foxing, else a very good set. HOWES D-2, "aa": "Written by a member of Jackson's staff, with the help of Jackson's family. Next to Henderson, his most authoritative biography." Rare, precedes the first American edition of 1866 (issued in one volume without the original photograph). "Dabney, a Virginian clergyman, wrote this biography at the invitation of Jackson's family; while the work is polemical in its defense of the Southern cause, it contains much primary material" Nevins II, p.50. "Dornbusch II, 2825. Haynes 4421.
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LIFE OF LIEUT.-GEN. THOMAS J. JACKSON (STONEWALL JACKSON)
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LIFE OF LIEUT.-GEN. THOMAS J. JACKSON (STONEWALL JACKSON), Volume 1, only
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London: James Nisbet & Co, 1864. Hard Cover. Good binding. 12mo. vi, [2],333, [1 (blank)], 2 (ads), 16 (ads) pp., frontis. First edition. In publisher's embossed cloth with title on the spine; mounted frontispiece of Jackson is present. Binding is soiled with moderate wear including a tear in the cloth at the top of both joints; fraying to spine ends and corners; light to moderate soiling; scattered foxing, otherwise contents are clean. All in all a relatively solid copy of the first volume of a scarce first edition of this important biography. "Written by a member of Jackson's staff, with the help of Jackson's family. Next to Henderson, his most authoritative biography" Howes D-2 "aa". Dornbusch II, 2826; CWB II, 50.
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