(New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1912).

SCARCE AND IMPORTANT AND A FINE SET. This printing of Jefferson Davis' classic work is seldom if ever encountered. Nevins holds that this, the great work to come out of the Confederacy s political system  conceals much and that it is the Confederate President s most significant argument on secession and states rights. Eicher (154) considered it a  valuable portrait of the postwar psychological state of Jefferson Davis. It is one of the great tomes to come out of the American Civil War when the remarkably literary and most eminent of the victors and vanquished penned their memoirs for the nation s posterity.
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2 volumes. First Printing of the New Edition, reissued and formatted in two volumes with the same pagination and with the same binding decorations as the first edition by the same publisher. Profusely illustrated with numerous black and white gravure portrait plates and many maps throughout including a number of which are folding. Tall, thick, 8vo, publisher s original textured sienna cloth, gilt lettered and gilt ruled on the spines, and with the gilt seal of the Confederate States on the upper covers. xxi, 707; xvii, 808 pp. Index in each volume. A fine set, fresh, bright and well preserved. Some minimal evidence of shelving to the tips, an essentially unused set, a discreet and unobtrusive small blemish to the spine panels not affecting the giltwork, old presentation inscriptions at the pastedowns.