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JORDAN COUNTY
de Shelby Foote
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good/Good
- Librería
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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Sobre este artículo
The Dial Press, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in Good price clipped dust jacket. Pages are clean with no markings from previous owners. Binding is square and tight. Boards are clean but worn along edges, spine ends and corners. Text block is soiled and foxed. Dust jacket has significant edgewear, creasing, chipping, closed tears, scuffing, soiling and rubbing.
Sinopsis
Shelby Foote was born on November 7, 1916 in Greenville, Mississippi, and attended school there until he entered the University of North Carolina. During World War II he served as a captain of field artillery but never saw combat. After World War II he worked briefly for the Associated Press in their New York bureau. In 1953 he moved to Memphis, where he lived for the remainder of his life.Foote was the author of six novels: Tournament , Follow Me Down , Love in a Dry Season , Shiloh , Jordan County , and September, September . He is best remembered for his 3-volume history The Civil War: A Narrative , which took twenty years to complete and resulted in his being a featured expert in Ken Burns' acclaimed Civil War documentary. Over the course of his writing career, Foote was also awarded three Guggenheim fellowships.Shelby Foote died in 2005 at the age of 88.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 65074
- Título
- JORDAN COUNTY
- Autor
- Shelby Foote
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- The Dial Press
- Fecha de publicación
- 1954
- Palabras clave
- Literature
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Atlanta Vintage Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
Sobre Atlanta Vintage Books
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
