Chris and Valerie Combs
Fine Art

"Patriotic Gore, Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War," by Edmund Wilson. Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1962. Scarce. Original blue hardcover in good condition. Cover has light shelf-wear and finger soiling. Gold-gilt letters on front cover and spine are clean and bright. Decorative dust jacket has chipping and shelfwear, corner clipped. Light aging on end pages. Text block is clean and bright. Binding tight. Actual size of book: 4 1/2 by 7 1/2 inches. 816 pages. The author drawss on the writings and words of thirty-some men and women who lived through the Civil War in this brillian reconstruction of the era. Scarce. Literature.