Hackney

1967 · ref. 55185 — Carbondale Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Very good to fine condition. Quarto. Original light brown cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on black leather labels of spine in original tan dustjackets with black lettering and ruling on spine. Top edges variant light reds or white. Inscribed "For Jim Richards friend and patron with many thanks. John Y. Simon October 9 1997" on front free endpapers of vols. 4 and 5 the latter dated December 23 1997. "For many Americans the eighteenth President of the United States has been an image rather than a man and because he embodied so many of the characteristic virtues and faults of his time and symbolized Union victory in the Civil War this image has reflected the somewhat mixed feelings of Americans about their past. and Grant's life before the Civil War once casually dismissed as "forty years of failure." can now be properly assessed as a series of experiences shaping a complex personality." Publisher V. 1. 1837-1861 -- V. 2. April-September 1861 -- V. 3. October 1 1861-January 7 1862 -- V. 4. January 8-March 31 1862 -- V. 5. April 1-August 31 1862 -- V. 6. September 1-December 8 1862 -- V. 7. December 9 1862-March 31 1863 -- V 8. April 1-July 6 1863 -- V. 9. July 7-December 31 1863 -- V. 10. January 1-May 31 1864.; V. 11. June 1-August 15 1864 -- V. 12. August 16-November 15 1864 -- V. 13. November 16 1864-February 20 1865 -- V. 14. February 21-April 30 1865 -- V. 15. May 1-December 31 1865 -- V. 16. 1866 -- V. 17. January 1-September 30 1867 -- V. 18. October 1 1867-June 30 1868 -- V. 19. July 1 1868-October 31 1869 -- V. 20. November 1 1869-October 31 1870 -- V. 21. November 1 1870-May 31 1871 -- V. 22. June 1 1871-January 31 1872 -- V. 23. February 1-December 31 1872 -- V. 24. 1873 -- V. 25. 1874 -- v. 26. 1875 -- V. 27. January 1-October 31 1876 -- V. 28. November 1 1876 - September 30 1878 -- V. 29. October 1 1878-September 30 1880 -- V. 30. October 1 1880-December 31 1882 -- V. 31. January 1 1883-July 23 1885 -- V 32 Supplementary documents. Vols. 1-6 price-clipped vols. 8 19-21 23-26 with white top edges. Else in near fine to fine condition. Southern Illinois University Press hardcover books