Prang's Civil War Pictures: The Complete Battle Chromos of Louis Prang Tapa dura - 2001 - 1st Edición

Fordham University Press (2001), Edition: 1, 184 pages, 2001. Hardcover. Prang's Civil War Pictures: The Complete Battle Chromos of Louis Prang (The North's Civil War) by Harold Holzer (2001)

Fordham University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Fordham University Press, 2001-10-01. 1. hardcover. Used: Good.

A very good signed and inscribed first edition, first printing of Prang's Civil War Pictures. Edited and with an Introction by Harold Holzer, a renowned Abraham Lincoln scholar. Holzer signed this copy on the occasion of delivering the Heroes of History Lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC in 2004.
For Andrew,
With thanks for making me feel like a hero at the "Heroes" lecture in Washington, October 18, 2004
Harold Holzer
See: https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2004-09-09
C-SPAN recording of Holzer's lecture in 2004: https://www.c-span.org/video/?183979-1/lincoln-presidency
From the jacket:
During the 1880s, a German-born, Boston-based picture publisher successfully commissioned the most ambitious series of battle prints ever published. Louis Prang, best known as the "father of the Christmas card," hired noted military and marine artists to create original scenes of combat, and then reproduced their works in a wildly popular portfolio of… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Fordham University Press, 2001-10-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!