Partisan Life with Col. John S. Mosby
de Scott, John (Major, CSA)
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
- Librería
-
Decatur, Illinois, United States
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New York: Harper and Brothers. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Book has bookplate and signature of J. Henley Smith who served in Company D of the 43th Battalion of the Virginia Cavalry (Mosby's Rangers). Binding is a rust colored cloth with gilt titles and decoration (a mounted cavalryman charging with drawn pistol and plumed hat on spine). Covers show wear -- spine ends missing about 1/8" and mended tear to top 1/2" of spine. There is a 1.5" split in the cloth outer hinge at top right of spine. Light general soiling to covers. Corners worn through. A small newspaper clipping concerning the publication of a book vindicating Stuart's actions at Gettysburg has been glued to the corner of a a blank page leaving a discolored image on the page opposite. Leading pages through title page show light general wear / soiling to edges, corners, surfaces. Text block is tight, clean and printed on good quality paper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 492 pages; Signed by Associated .
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Detalles
- Librería
- Novel Ideas Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 520145
- Título
- Partisan Life with Col. John S. Mosby
- Autor
- Scott, John (Major, CSA)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Harper and Brothers
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1867
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Civil War;
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Novel Ideas Books
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Novel Ideas Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2004
Decatur, Illinois
Sobre Novel Ideas Books
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- Cloth
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- Hinge
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- Spine
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- Title Page
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- Jacket
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- Good+
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- Text Block
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- Bookplate
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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- 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...
- 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...
