Shiloh.
Signed limited first Edition of shelby Foote's Classic Shiloh
Shiloh.
FOOTE, Shelby .
Item Number: 136740
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2012.
Signed limited first edition of Foote’s classic fictional re-creation of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862. Octavo, original full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, raised bands, all edges gilt, silk endpapers, ribbon bound in. Signed by Shelby Foote. In fine condition.
Shiloh owes much to William Faulkner in the slow, elegant cadence of its storytelling. Its narrative also resembles Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage"; a similarity reinforced by the fact that Foote wrote an introduction to an edition of Crane's work some forty years later.
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