The devil’s brigade: the story of the hatfield-mccoy feud

550 USD

The Hatfield–McCoy feud gripped the rugged borderlands of West Virginia and Kentucky for fourteen turbulent years. Published in 1930 and complete in its original George Annand-designed dustjacket, this volume remains an unusually bright, clean example, retaining its red cloth binding, crisp black stamping, and the publisher’s striking illustrated wrapper.

Across 325 pages, Spivak draws from oral accounts, legal records, and on-the-ground reportage to illuminate a world of frontier justice, mountain codes, and generational loyalty. What began with the ill-fated romance between Rosanna McCoy and Johnse Hatfield spiraled into an epic of reprisals—an almost operatic cycle of devotion and defiance that threatened to ignite a regional civil war. His narrative captures not only the human cost of the conflict, but a raw, little-seen portrait of Appalachian life at the turn of the century: its hardships, hierarchies, silences, and fiercely guarded pride.

With a small bookseller’s label to the rear endpaper and only the faintest signs of age, this copy stands as a remarkable survivor—an artifact of American folklore rendered with journalistic clarity and dramatic force.

THE DEVIL’S BRIGADE: THE STORY OF THE HATFIELD-MCCOY FEUD

The devil’s brigade: the story of the hatfield-mccoy feud

550 USD

The Hatfield–McCoy feud gripped the rugged borderlands of West Virginia and Kentucky for fourteen turbulent years. Published in 1930 and complete in its original George Annand-designed dustjacket, this volume remains an unusually bright, clean example, retaining its red cloth binding, crisp black stamping, and the publisher’s striking illustrated wrapper.

Across 325 pages, Spivak draws from oral accounts, legal records, and on-the-ground reportage to illuminate a world of frontier justice, mountain codes, and generational loyalty. What began with the ill-fated romance between Rosanna McCoy and Johnse Hatfield spiraled into an epic of reprisals—an almost operatic cycle of devotion and defiance that threatened to ignite a regional civil war. His narrative captures not only the human cost of the conflict, but a raw, little-seen portrait of Appalachian life at the turn of the century: its hardships, hierarchies, silences, and fiercely guarded pride.

With a small bookseller’s label to the rear endpaper and only the faintest signs of age, this copy stands as a remarkable survivor—an artifact of American folklore rendered with journalistic clarity and dramatic force.

THE DEVIL’S BRIGADE: THE STORY OF THE HATFIELD-MCCOY FEUD
A first edition of The Devil’s Brigade, journalist John L. Spivak’s vivid and unflinching chronicle of the most infamous family vendetta in American history.
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John L. Spivak — First Edition
Brewer and Warren, New York
8vo., Red Cloth in Illustrated Dustjacket
325 pp., with Full-Page Map

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As we mark ten years of Jacques Marie Mage, we return to where it all began: the nascent sparks, the first bold forms, the foundational silhouettes that set our course. With Origins, the inaugural offering from Réserve by JMM, we invite you to rediscover the earliest expressions of our ethos—limited-edition spectacles from the first season of the Circa Collection, which consisted of exactly four styles: the Dealan, Zephirin, Hatfield, And Fountainebleau.

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