Echo Of A Distant Drum: Winslow Homer and the Civil War
by Grossman, Julian
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG
- Seller
-
Auckland, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. No date, presumed First Edition. Cover: split navy blue and grey cloth cover with gilt titles and gilt drummer soldier on front cover; light thin sunning to some of the head & bottom board edges. Moderate foxing and soiling to edges. Very faint few only foxing to eps. Few only pages very fore-edge with light foxing/ smudging otherwise quite clean content. Comprehensive colour and b/w illustrations, binding tight. 204p Dj: mild rubbing and scratches. Small closed tear to bottom front jacket. Shelf sunned. Thin creasing to bottom rear jacket edge.. Hb. VG/VG.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BOOKMARK Ltd
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029699
- Title
- Echo Of A Distant Drum: Winslow Homer and the Civil War
- Author
- Grossman, Julian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military > Historical Pre -WWI;
Terms of Sale
BOOKMARK Ltd
Will reimburse cost of book, if not as described.
About the Seller
BOOKMARK Ltd
Biblio member since 2006
Auckland
About BOOKMARK Ltd
BOOK.MARK carries a large inventory of most subjects, the majority of which are not listed on the Net.Open 7 days.Shop has a great atmospere and plenty of memorabilia and curios to add to the pleasures of browsing the shelves.
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- Sunned
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- 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...
- Rubbing
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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