New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1870. Hardcover. Comprehensive yearbook covers the events of 1864, with special focus on the war. Includes frontispiece of Grant, portrait of Sheridan, and plate with illustration of Bailey's Dam. Heavy quarto. 838 pp. Contemporary leather. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer... More about The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1864. Embracing...

Cambridge University Press, 1990. Hardcover. Octavo, xi + 452 pp. Black cloth. Provenance: from the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Faint spotting to top edge of book block. Lacks dust jacket. More about Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877

New York: Da Capo Press, 1970. Hardcover. Unabridged reprint of 1938 edition. Octavo, 318 pp. Blue cloth. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Clean, unmarked copy. No dust jacket (presumed as issued). More about Secession and Restoration of Louisiana

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1952. Hardcover. "The critical months between the autumn of 1862 and midsummer 1863 is the focus of Glory Road. During this time the outcome of the Civil War is determined, as the battles at Fredericksburg, Rappahannock and Chancellorsville set the state for Union victory as... More about Glory Road: The Bloody Route from Fredericksburg to Gettysburg

Washington, DC: American Historical Society, 1913. Hardcover. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. 12mo, 392 pp. Bound in black buckram. Deaccessioned from Denison University with Donald's personal library stamp on front pastedown. Marginalia in pencil throughout. More about The Whig Party in the South

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1941. Hardcover. Octavo, 356 pp. Red cloth. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Donald's stamp on ffep. Several pages show very minor marks in pencil in Donald's handwriting. No dust jacket. More about Business & Slavery: The New York Merchants & the Irrepressible Conflict

Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1961. Hardcover. Octavo, 168 pp. Blue-gray cloth. Provenance: from the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Name printed on ffep. Dust jacket shows light wear and foxing along spine. More about Old Gentlemen's Convention: The Washington Peace Conference of 1861

Gettysburg College, 1986. Softcover. 25th Annual Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture. Octavo, 25 pp. Stapled wraps. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Clean, unmarked copy. More about The Road to Gettysburg

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1949. Hardcover. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Includes 10 pages of dense notes in Donald's handwriting plus 1950 American Economic Review offprint with same name as book. Octavo, 631 pp. Maroon cloth. Name stamped on ffep... More about The House of Baring in American Trade and Finance

Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1956. Softcover. Octavo, 220 pp. In wraps. Provenance: from the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Donald's name stamped on upper wrap. A few pages show marginalia (check marks, etc.) in pencil. More about The Framing of the Fourteenth Amendment

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. "As the Civil War tears America apart, General Stonewall Jackson leads a troop of Confederate soldiers on a long trek north towards the battle they believe will be a conclusive victory. Through their hopes, fears and losses, Keneally conveys both the... More about Confederates

Shiloh Illinois: The Illinois Company, 1993, 1996. Softcover. Complete two-volume set. Octavo. Vol. I: 299 pp.; 269 pp. In wraps. Provenance: from the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Clean, unmarked set. More about The Law of Illinois: Volume I: Lincoln's Cases Before the Illinois Supreme Court, From His Entry...

New York: McClure, Phillips, & Co., 1901. Hardcover. Octavo, xxiv + 531 pp. Red cloth. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Minor stain to heel of spine. Front hinge cracked. Pages remain clean and unmarked. More about Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction