[CIVIL WAR]. MAXWELL, James Robert (1844-1930). Autobiography of James Robert Maxwell of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. New York: Greenberg, Publisher, 1926. 8vo. Illustrated with frontispiece and 1 plate. 325, [1, colophon]. Publisher's full brown cloth, front board and spine lettered in gilt (spine toned and lightly rubbed, minor rubbing to boards, endleaves lightly offset, text toned, a few pages foxed, with light offsetting, the last few leaves and one plate dampstained at upper corner, a few later pages roughly opened). Very good. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, #159, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: ?Mr. Aldenott [?] Snow because of the life long friendship between his father + myself. And because it details Much of old Tuscaloosa its business affairs in which his father, and grandparents took part James R. Maxwell July 23rd 1926" The author has crossed out the printed date (?March, 1926") at the bottom. A rare book, which ??includes description and history of antebellum Tuscaloosa, with an emphasis on the author's war experiences in Lumsden's battery and in the 34th Alabama infantry." (Alabama History: An Annotated Bibliography, 1413.) From the renowned personal collection of Dr. George D. Lacy. Measurements: 9 x 6 x 2".