Books: A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Confederacy, two volumes, by James D. Richardson. Nashville: United States Publishing Company, 1906. Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.25, 643 and 760 pages. Book condition: G/None. Both volumes bound in red cloth with gilt titles on spines and gilted upper textblock edges. Both have worn edges, with small chips and tears in cloth; sunning and soiling to exteriors; slightly yellowed textblocks with some minor scattered foxing. Volume I completely split along front interior hinge and partially split along rear. Volume II has water damage to upper third of exterior with staining to first/last several pages; rear hinge and few interior hinges partially cracked. RR Auction COA.
