[AMERICANA]. [CONFEDERACY]. POLLARD, Edward A. (1832-1872). The Lost Cause; A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates. New York: E. B. Treat & Co., 1866. 8vo. Illustrated with 6 plates, including frontispiece. 752, [4, ads] pp. Publisher's full purple cloth, boards stamped in blind, front board and spine stamped in gilt (spine sunned, some rubbing, bumping to binding, some offsetting to endleaves, ownership signature on ffep., p. 752 with apparent burn to lower corner with loss of page, some soiling to conjugate pages of p. 752.) Near fine. FIRST EDITION OF THIS UNCOMMON HISTORY OF THE CONFEDERACY.