Lincoln's Gamble: The Tumultuous Six Months That Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War
by BREWSTER, Todd
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1451693869
- ISBN 13
- 9781451693867
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About This Item
New York: Scribner. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. 1451693869 . A first printing of Todd Brewster's analysis of the events during the US Civil War which culminated with the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln. Appendix includes various reprinted facsimiles of drafts and of the final version of the Proclamation. --- In brown and black paper-covered boards with spine titling in silver. Jacket feature photographic portrait of Mr. Lincoln to front panel. --- An about Fine copy: clean, tightly-bound, bright and lacking apparent damages. Similar, excellent, unclipped jacket is wrapped in removable archival mylar protector (which has a couple of horizontal scratches).; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; (12), 352 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86615
- Title
- Lincoln's Gamble: The Tumultuous Six Months That Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War
- Author
- BREWSTER, Todd
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1451693869
- ISBN 13
- 9781451693867
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- 1451693869
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Abraham Lincoln; >>Civil War (U.S.);
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