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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

First Edition, First Printing of Jacques Barzun's monumental cultural history of Western civilization. "(M)aster historian Jacques Barzun has set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500."
Binding is no longer perfectly tight. Some signs of shelf wear.

The first comprehensive literary history of Baltimore and Maryland.
Comfortable reading copy in very good shape.