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Andersonville
by Kantor, MacKinlay
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Not Issued
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1986. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, full genuine black leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 766 pages. All edges gilt. Sewn in silk book-mark, marbled paper end-sheets and smyth sewn book block complete this work as a quality Franklin Library production, "privately printed and bound exclusively for subscribers to The Franklin Library of Pulitzer Prize Classics." Contains an extensive bibliography. Illustrated with nineteenth-century drawings by Walton Taber. First edition thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956. No previous ownership marks. Very minor signs of wear to elaborate gilt stamping, else near fine. A clean, tight, sound copy, still handsome and with a wonderful shelf appearance. Very good+.
Synopsis
"The greatest of our Civil War novels."— The New York Times . The 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration camp-like prison by the South during the Civil War.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021043
- Title
- Andersonville
- Author
- Kantor, MacKinlay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Not Issued
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 1986
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Historical Fiction, Civil War, Fine Binding, Franklin Library
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Binding; Civil War; Historical Fiction;
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Staten Island, New York
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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