1958 Civil War A Narrative in 3 Volumes INSCRIBED by Author Shelby Foote

  
The Civil War A Narrative. I: Fort Sumter to Perryville, [9], 4-840, [2]; Vol. II: Fredericksburg to Meridian [9], 4-988, [2]; Vol.

III: Red River to Appomattox, [9], 4-1106, [6] pp. All three volumes bound in textured grey cloth with gold lettering blocked in blue on the spine; grey topstain.

Detailed maps on the endpapers and paste-downs. 9.75 x 6.5, 8vos. I is INSCRIBED by author Shelby Foote on front end-page (verso).

Dust jackets exhibit lightly scuffed edges and corners. Jacket's spines are toned from sun-exposure. I's rear flap hinge is split at head. Age-stain or soiling found on Vol.

I's dust jacket: rear cover, above ISBN. II's dust jacket exhibits either age-stain or soiling on front cover, by author's printed name. Grey cloth boards scuffed at edges and worn at corners. Heads and tails of spines bumped. Gilt & painted lettering on spines rubbed but still attractive. Top edges sprayed grey; dulled. I's top edge exhibits small water dampness stain. Light foxing to cloth covered boards.

Author inscription found on Vol. I's front end-page (Verso), in ink: For Mark Neely, with Thanks for the Introduction. Normal age-related toning throughout text-blocks; mostly to edges of leaves.

Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. (1916 - 2005) was an American writer, historian and journalist. Although he primarily viewed himself as a novelist, he is now best known for his authorship of The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume history of the American Civil War. With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta, Foote's life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South. Foote was little known to the general public until his appearance in Ken Burns's PBS documentary The Civil War in 1990, where he introduced a generation of Americans to a war that he believed was "central to all our lives".

Foote did all his writing by hand with a nib pen, later transcribing the result into a typewritten copy. In 1992, Foote received an honorary doctorate from the University of North Carolina. In the early 1990s, Foote was interviewed by journalist Tony Horwitz for the project on American memory of the Civil War which Horwitz eventually published as Confederates in the Attic (1998).

Foote was also a member of The Modern Library's editorial board for the re-launch of the series in the mid-1990s, this series published two books excerpted from his Civil War narrative. Foote also contributed a long introduction to their edition of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, giving a narrative biography of the author. He also received the 1992 St.

Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates. And, odd for a writer, Shelby absolutely refused to sign books. When people asked him to autograph copies of his work, he'd look at them with a stricken expression, and say, How can I sign this? I don't even know you. Foote, apparently, had no problem signing books for people he did know, as seen in this work thanking Mark Neely for the introduction.

(born November 10, 1944, in Amarillo, Texas) is an American historian best known as an authority on the U. Civil War in general and Abraham Lincoln in particular. Neely has written several books on the topic, including (but not limited to), 1981 - The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, 1984 - The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print, 1985 - Changing The Lincoln Image, 1986 - The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln, 1987 - The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause, 1990 - The Lincoln Family Album, 1991 - The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (winner of the Pulitzer and Wiley prizes). Quite a rare set inscribed by Foote. Books are later editions (probably from the 1990s re-launch).