Hardtack and Coffee; the unwritten story of Army Life (Lakeside Classics)
de John D. Billings: edited by Richard Harwell
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/Without dust jacket as issued
- Librería
-
Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1960. First thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Without dust jacket as issued. Originally published by George M. Smith: Boston, 1888. 12mo 6 7/8" tall, xxv + 483 pages, gilt top fore-edge, gilt titles on decorated blue cloth. A near fine, clean, neat, hardcover with little shelf wear, binding tight, paper cream white. Issued without dust jacket.
Sinopsis
Hard Tack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life is a memoir by John D. Billings. Billings was a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Artillery Battery in the American Civil War. Originally published in 1888, Hard Tack and Coffee quickly became a best seller, and is now considered one of the most important books written by a Civil War veteran.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 63198
- Título
- Hardtack and Coffee; the unwritten story of Army Life (Lakeside Classics)
- Autor
- John D. Billings: edited by Richard Harwell
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Without dust jacket as issued
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First thus
- Editorial
- Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons
- Fecha de publicación
- 1960
- Palabras clave
- Civil War, American History,
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
