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The civil war vol ii shelby foote6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() First edition, first printings, in first issue dust jackets: Volume I with "11/58" on rear flap Volume II with "11/63" on front flap Volume III with "11/74" on rear flap. First edition sets signed by Foote are much sought-after and increasingly scarce. "His mission was to tell what he considered America's biggest story as a vast, finely detailed, deeply human narrative… A model of what military history can be" ( New York Times). Since that event, Foote has become widely viewed as an authority on the Civil War, and more generally, as a representative of an era and region whose place continues to be central to our country's understanding of itself" (University of Mississippi). Despite this three-volume, million-word history, two decades in the writing, "Foote remained relatively unknown before his role in Ken Burns' The Civil War made him a cultural icon. "A sweeping overview of the war from a decidedly different perspective… Foote is a master storyteller of the war, and his accounts are riveting" (Eicher 740). ![]() Scarce first editions of Foote's massive, authoritative and engrossing history, with tipped-in leaf signed by the historian in Volume I, in original dust jackets. Large octavo, original gray cloth, cartographic endpapers, original dust jackets. "A MODEL OF WHAT MILITARY HISTORY CAN BE": SHELBY FOOTE'S CIVIL WAR, THE FIRST VOLUME SIGNED BY HIMįOOTE, Shelby. ![]()
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