Author: Camille Ferri Pisani
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1959
Series: Civil War Centennial Series, IUP
Binding: hardcover
Condition: VG/G
Price: $25.00
ISBN: Ø
CVB Inv: 00208
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Description:
A volume in a series of Civil War-era memoirs, reissued as the Civil War Centennial Series by Indiana University Press during 1957-1962.
Translated with a preface by Georges J. Joyaux. Foreword by Bruce Catton; introduction by the author.
Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust jacket condition: good. Cover has minor shelf wear to head and tail of spine; slight fading to tail of boards. Jacket has minor tears to head and tail of spine; rubbing to front panel and front wrap; slight discoloration to back panel. Small octavo; 317 pp. Silver lettering on dark gray cloth boards. Illustrated by Gil Walker with numerous delightful pen-and-ink drawings, including panoramas on front and back endsheets. Binding and hinges tight; clean, bright copy with no markings.
From jacket notes: “As aide-de-camp to Prince Napoleon (cousin of Emperor Napoleon III), Colonel Ferri Pisani saw and heard a great deal during their visit to America in 1861…. His letters to a superior officer in Paris preserve a rare picture of this country at one of its most crucial periods – the summer after the first Battle of Bull Run.”
