GDG- How many Gettysburg books?

[Alan D. Brunelle]

dwmadison at comcast.net wrote:
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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> I have 13 on the battle.
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> A question  What would be considered the top ten books on the battle that someone should have in their library?
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I have about 60 or so, and of those, I think the top 10 on my shelf are 
(not necessarily in order):

   1. Coddington's "The Gettysburg Campaign"
   2. The ORs (cheating a little bit - this includes 3 volumes, but they
      were shrink-wrapped together when I got them...)
   3. Gottfried's "The Maps of Gettysburg"
   4. Frassanito's "Gettysburg: A Journey in Time"
   5. Martin's "Gettysburg: July 1"
   6. Pfanz's "Gettysburg: The Second Day"
   7. Pfanz's "Gettysburg: Culp's Hill & Cemetery Hill"
   8. Stewart's "Pickett's Charge"
   9. Longacre's "The Cavalry at Gettysburg"
  10. <left open for Shultz & Rollins "Artillery at Gettysburg"> :-)

I suppose most would believe that Busey & Martin's "Regimental Strengths 
and Losses at Gettysburg" (I have the fourth edition) should be up there 
as well. But that would mean Frassanito's would have to go, and I 
couldn't make myself do that (a purist would probably argue that 
Frassanito's isn't really that "battle related", but (a) I'm not that 
pure, and (b) it's my list damn it! :- )).

I picked these not necessarily as being "my most favorite"  (although 
most certainly are), but more in the line with trying to cover as many 
aspects of the /battle/ as possible. A general overview (Sears, Trudeau 
or Tucker, for example) could have fit in, and certainly I very much 
respect some of the micro-histories - including Wittenberg's text on 
Brinkerhoff's Ridge, or his work with Petruzzi on Stuart's ride, or 
Adelman & Smith's work on the Devil's Den, or Jorgenson's on the 
Wheatfield, or Christ's book on the Bliss farm, or ... <sigh> So many 
*great* books, mostly recommended by people on this list...

Respectfully submitted,
Alan
PS. I do know that Imhoff's work on Day 2 is /very/ highly respected, 
and I'd love to have one on my shelf - so if anyone is out there trying 
to dump a copy for, oh say, under the couple of thousand being asked out 
there... :-)