Mary Chesnut's Civil War

New Haven/London: Yale University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1981). First Edition. Hardcover. [a very nice copy, with just the teensiest bit of wear to book and jacket]. (frontispiece portrait) The "first full and reliable edition" of Mary Boykin Chesnut's Civil War diaries, "making use of surviving parts of four manuscript versions." From the jacket blurb: "Married to a high-ranking member of the Confederate government, she was ideally placed to watch and to record the South's headlong plunge to ruin, and she left in her journals an unsurpassed account of the old regime's death throes, its moment of high drama in world history. ... A passionate participant in events, she was also a detached observer of all the strata of her society." About as nice a copy as you could find of this 1982 Pulitzer Prize winner. ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order. As always at ReadInk, domestic Media Mail shipping is free.**** .