History from Minotavros Books

Jackson, TN: McCowat-Mercer Press Inc, 1959. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Full green cloth. 378 pp. B&W illustrations. Light rubbing to extremities. Stain to top edge of text block. Bookseller ticket of D.A. Bulen to rear pastedown. Dust jacket is worn to extremities, chipped to spine foot, tears to ends of rear joint. This is the simple… Read more

Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing Co, 1932. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. black and red stamped cloth. 333 pp. Spine sunned and tilted, extremities bruised, some scuffing to boards. Bookplate to flyleaf. Near fine copy of an account of the Russian Revolution by Polish film and stage director Richard Boleslavski (Ryszard Boleslaw).

Hillsboro, Texas: Hill Jr. College Press, 1973. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Orig. green cloth. B&W map endpapers. xv, 498 pp. [37] pp. B&W illustrations incl. frontis portrait of Major General Patrick Cleburne. Laid-in errata to rfep. Light bumps to spine ends. Dust jacket is chipped to spine head (repaired with tape), light bumping to edges, damp staining… Read more

London: Andre Deutsch, 1965. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo. Full brown cloth. B&W map endpapers. T.E.R. Slight bowing to front board, bruise to spine head. Light staining to fore edge of text block. Dust jacket is price clipped, chipped to spine head (with loss), bumped to extremities, tears to top edges. Some delamination to extremities. "The… Read more

Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Bookshop, 1975. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Dickinson, L.T.. 12mo. Facsimile. Orig. maroon leatherette. xvi, 17-280 pp., ads. [16] pp. B&W photos and illustrations. Small scuff to front board. Some slight discolouration to endpapers, light warping to upper corner of same pages at rear. Else fine.

Jonesboro, Georgia: Freedom Hill Press, 1987. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Georgia Military History Series. Orig. blue cloth. 161 pp. B&W illustrations. Fine. The story of a volunteer infantry regiment in the Civil War, written by one of its members.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1966. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 12mo. Great Battles of History Series. First edition stated. Orig. mustard yellow cloth, silver lettering. xxii, 202 pp. B&W maps in text. Slight fading to cloth to spine and edges, a few spots of rubbing to extremities. Dust jacket is price clipped, chipped to spine ends, several short… Read more

Carmel, IN: Guild Press Of Indiana, 1996. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. White, Michael. 8vo. Soft cover. xvi, 164 pp. B&W photos and maps. Fine. Illinois Rebels will be unwelcome by Civil War enthusiasts who see our greatest national calamity from a totally partisan point of view - whether that partisanship be pro-Confederate or pro-Union. It is certain… Read more

Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2009. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 171 pp. Fine.

Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. vii, 110 pp. B&W photos. Fine. The Tullahoma campaign of 1863 is often overlooked, overshadowed by the simulataneous events at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. However, the strategic results of the campaign were enormous: the Confederacy lost the human, agricultural, and industrial capacity of middle Tennessee;… Read more

Conway, Arkansas: UCA Press, 1995. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Brown leatherette boards. xi, 411 pp. B&W photos. Spine slightly tilted. A few bumps to extremities of dust jacket. Fine overall. Sixteen-year-old Phil Stephenson served in two crack outfits - the 13th Arkansas Infantry, which Pat Cleburne favored because of his Irishmen, and the 5th Company, Washington… Read more

Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2010. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full black cloth. xvi, 215 pp. [8] pp. B&W photos. Fine.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full black paper boards. 331 pp. [8] pp. B&W plates of photos. Bruising to spine ends and lower corners. From the critically acclaimed authors of Lusitania comes a book about the shocking murder-suicide that ushered in the end of the of the Habsburg monarchy that had… Read more

Boulder: Eastern European Monographs, 1998. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full navy cloth. xii, 182 pp. B&W photos in text. Fine. This is an authentic story of a frontline soldier in World War I. A Czech conscript in the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal armed forces, the soldier underwent a terrible ordeal in the hopeless war between the Habsburg monarchy… Read more

Toronto: Signal, 2018. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Quarter grey cloth, grey paper boards. viii, 358 pp. [32] pp. colour photo plates. Fine.

Jackson: University and College Press of Mississippi, 1973. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full green leatherette. xix, 115 pp. Fine. This diary of a young Mississippi soldier in the Confederate army reveals more about the day-to-day experience of war than many a volume on strategy and combat.

Las Cruces, NM: Yucca Tree Press, 2001. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Orig. orange cloth. vii, 392 pp. B&W photos and maps in text. Dust jacket is lightly bumped and rubbed to extremities. This book provides a unique look into a single unit during the Civil War. Recruited from a four-county area in central Tennessee, this… Read more

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1945. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Orig. green cloth, blind stamped ship and scroll vignette to front board, gilt nautical decoration to spine. Top edge green. xi, 340 pp. Some spotting to boards, bumping to spine ends and corners, bruise to head of front board.. Dust jacket is price clipped,… Read more

London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd, 1938. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Orig. blue cloth. T.E.R. viii, 120 pp. [34] colour and B&W plates (some double-sided w/ multiple photos), incl. colour frontis. Sunning to top and tail edges of boards. Ink gift inscription to ffep. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned and worn at spine, perforation to… Read more

Boston: Paperview, 2005. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Glossy pictorial paper boards. 191 pp. Interior slightly age toned, else fine. In this historic collection of essays, W.E.B. Du Bois lifted the veil on segregation in America, thereby preparing the grounds for the civil rights movement.