Samuel Chamberlain's My Confession is a classic, ribald tale of nineteenth-century life. Perhaps the best written account of a soldier's adventures and misadventures in the Mexican War and its aftermath, this unexpurgated edition is now available for the first time, complete with over 150 of Chamberlain's wonderful textual illustrations reproduced in full color. If you enjoyed the Chamberlain paintings assembled in Sam Chamberlain's Mexican War:The San Jacinto Museum of History Paintings, you will be fascinated by the tale in My Confession that goes with it and beyond it into Chamberlain's adventures with the scalp-hunting Glanton Gang (the story that Cormac McCarthy used as the basis for his celebrated novel Blood Meridian).
My Confession is the story of Samuel Chamberlain, a Boston boy who hoped to be a theological student but could not control his amorous and pugilistic inclinations and so left for the West. According to his "Confession," he seduced countless women in the U.S. and Mexico, never missed a fandango, fought gallantly against Mexican guerrillas, and rode with the First Dragoons into the Battle of Buena Vista. His remarkable story is pure melodrama, but Goetzmann has proven by his painstaking research that much of it is true.
The editor's annotations are a valuable contribution to an account that virtually every historian of the Mexican War has used.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good hardcover in blue boards. No dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing with the full number line. Overall a great reading copy. This is the 1997 Unexpurgated and Annotated edition with full color reproductions of Chamberlain's paintings. Chamberlain's memoirs are said to be the basis for Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. The text and images are clean and bright. No significant wear to the exterior. Bright gilt embossed lettering to the spine. The front and rear gutters show signs of stress, though they are still bound tight. 383 pp. Codice articolo 004824
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Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Codice articolo Alibris.0014217
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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. First edition with complete number line 1-10. Unread, clean copy in new condition. Tight binding, unmarked text, no signs of wear. Dust jacket is like new, no chips, tears or rubbing. A pristine collectors copy. Codice articolo ABE-1719064805566
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hardcover. Condizione: LikeNew. Page block, boards and binding are prestine. Dust wrapper in fine, like new condition. Extremely fine. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. US veteran operated. Codice articolo 1LAA3T0016NP
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