Dave

Dave Powell, that suggestion didn’t go over well with Susan. 🙂

Eric

I’m glad to hear you’re home, and hopefully, you’re feeling a bit better. Hang in there.

And enjoy the book.

Eric

Sit back, get comfy, and ride with Jeb 🙂

J.D.

Here is a different slant you may wish to consider.

Have you thought about (1) letting GFCA go out of print, (2) write and publish your three volume work, (3) release a second edition (revised and enlarged) of GFCA which is from the three volume work?

Such an arrangement will allow for (1) a complete revision of GFCA with enough time between the first and second edition to create a market for it, (2) GFCA can be purchased by those wishing only for that aspect of the battle, and (3) it serves as an advertisement for purchasing the larger three volume work.

Modern Library did something like this when they published under separate covers Shelby Foote’s Gettysburg and Vicksburg accounts.

Best wishes always,
Lanny Thomas Tanton

I know very little about such things, but once the rights revert to you, you have several options open to you. However, I will say this as an eclectic purchaser of books of interest. DO NOT LET IT JUST BECOME PART OF SOME LARGER BOOK OR GROUP OF BOOKS. I have bought a lot of very esoteric works on various persons, commands and theaters because I was attempting to gain as much information as possible about my main interest and not simply use what others have written about the man. Frankly, I am ‘turned off’ by large books which only contain a very small amount of information pertaining to my field of research. First, of course, the larger book was usually commensurately expensive, far more so than a smaller work more limited and focussed on my interest would have been.

Secondly, space has become a matter of concern; indeed, it is now CRITICAL. Three large books usually take up more space than twice that number of smaller books and that’s to be considered when all I want from the LARGE book is a few chapters or something that was once contained in a much smaller work. Furthermore, it is a real pain digging through the larger books to find the information I want and, with carpel tunnel in both hands, schlepping large books is a REAL pain!

I would not let your ‘baby’ go and become nothing more than someone else’s appendix or a few chapters. If you wish to permit certain parts of the work to go into a larger, more comprehensive study, by all means do so. But if I were you, I would see what I could do to ‘update/correct’ the book and have it reprinted even in paperback.

But than, as I have been informed before, what do I know? 😉

I think you should match it with a suitable Western theater cavalry book, say on Forrest and Wheeler in 1863, and do a boxed set.:)