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[CIVIL WAR]. A group of 4 titles in five volumes related to the Civil War. Including: [JOHNSON, Algernon Sydney]. Memoirs of a Nullifier. Columbia: Printed and Published at the Telescope Office, 1832. Small 8vo. With the rare errata page, not mentioned in Howes or Sabin. Publisher’s boards, rebacked in later calf, spine lettered in gilt (some wear, soiling to binding, ffep and front blank nearly detached, binder’s slip on rear pastedown). First edition of this rare South Carolina nullification imprint. Howes J121. Sabin 47565. -- MACMAHON, T. W. Cause and Contrast: An Essay on the American Crisis. Richmond: West & Johnston, 1862. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half black morocco over marbled boards, spine stamped in gilt (binding worn, soiled, hinges cracking, text toned, soiled, ownership signature). First edition. Parrish and Willingham 5583. -- The Falling Flag. New York: E. J. Hale and Son, 1874. 8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth, front board stamped in black and gilt (binding heavily worn, soiled, title-page lacking top ?, title-page with later decals, childish scrawl throughout, bookplate of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, free endpapers missing). -- DAVIS, Jefferson. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. 2 volumes, 8vo. Illustrated with frontispieces, plates, and folding maps. Publisher’s half brown morocco over brown boards, spines stamped in gilt (some light wear, soiling, hinges starting, some foxing in text, bookplate of Edward Rowse Cavender on both front pastedowns, ownership signatures of Robert S. Chamberlain).