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The Sultana Tragedy: America's Greatest Maritime Disaster
de Jerry O. Potter
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0882898612
- ISBN 13
- 9780882898612
- Librería
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Precio
EUR 9.42EUR 6.60
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Sobre este artículo
Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company , 1997 Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna, LA. 1997. Hardcover. Stated 2nd Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to head; light shelfwear to tail and lower tips. DJ: Near Fine; sunfading to spine. White cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 300 pp 8vo. On April 27, 1865, the Sultana, a 260 ft., wooden hulled steamboat exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis killing 1800 of its 2400 passengers who were mostly Union soldiers on their way home from Confederate prison camps. This book is the first comprehensive study of the disaster and brings to light the cause of the explosion, and the investigation and cover-up which followed. A clean very presentable copy.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 015735
- Título
- The Sultana Tragedy: America's Greatest Maritime Disaster
- Autor
- Jerry O. Potter
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0882898612
- ISBN 13
- 9780882898612
- Editorial
- Pelican Publishing Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Gretna, LA
- Fecha de publicación
- 1997
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Palabras clave
- Civil War, The Sultana, Mississippi River, Maritime disaster, Union Soldiers, Confederate Prison Camps, overloading of ships, Civil War Maritime Disaster, Memphis TN,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Prisoner of War; Civil War;
Términos de venta
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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Sobre el vendedor
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Miembro de Biblio desde 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
Sobre Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- 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....
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
