My Confession

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Introduction and Postscript by Roger Butterfield. Near Fine in a Good jacket, clipped but still priced ($6.00), generally worn with chips, tears, and tape repairs on ther verso. Red and blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, some foxing at the edges, clean internally. Chamberlain's account of his exploits before, during, and after the Mexican-American War, famously the source material for Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.