Narrative of Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers and Soldiers while Prisoners of War in the Hands of the Rebel Authorities: Being the Report of a Commission of Inquiry, Appointed by the United States Sanitary Commission; with an Appendix, Containing the Testimony [bound in Howard M. Hoyt's Indestructible Binding]
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1864. Hardcover. Very Good -. Printed for the U.S. Sanitary Commission." 15, [3], 17-283, [1] p., 4 leaves of plates: 1 full-page map of the prison at Andersonville, Ga.; 23 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards; the leather spine covered a metal spine, Howard M. Hoyt's Indestructible Binding, identified by a circular stamp on front fixed endpaper, dated 1876. The hinges were strengthened later with dark brown cloth book repair tape. The 4 plates are copies of photographs of Union soldiers after their return from imprisonment at Belle Isle. Howard M. Hoyt's Indestructible Binding was advertised in 1878 and 1879 in school and library journals, and in Publishers Weekly and The American Bookseller. Examples of this type of binding are very scarce. In Very Good- Condition: lacking the leather over the metal spine; boards are rubbed; front free endpaper chipped; a few pages soiled; otherwise clean and tight.
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- Librería
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 004173
- Título
- Narrative of Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers and Soldiers while Prisoners of War in the Hands of the Rebel Authorities: Being the Report of a Commission of Inquiry, Appointed by the United States Sanitary Commission; with an Appendix, Containing the Testimony [bound in Howard M. Hoyt's Indestructible Binding]
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good -
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- King & Baird
- Lugar de publicación
- Philadelphia
- Fecha de publicación
- 1864
- Catálogos del vendedor
- American History; Militaria; Maps;
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Classic Books and Ephemera
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Classic Books and Ephemera
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
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