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Patriotic Envelopes of the Civil War: The Iconography of Union and Confederate Covers
by Boyd, Steven R
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0807136859
- ISBN 13
- 9780807136850
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. First printing. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. x 132pp. Tan cloth in dust jacket. 23 plates containing 171 color photographs of envelopes and stamps. From the jacket flap: During the Civil War, private printers in both the North and South produced a vast array of envelopes featuring iconography designed to promote each side's war effort ... In Patriotic envelopes of the Civil War, the first book-length analysis of these covers, Steven R. Boyd explores their imagery to understand what motivated soldiers and civilians to support a war far more protracted and destructive than anyone anticipated in 1861.
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- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74301
- Title
- Patriotic Envelopes of the Civil War: The Iconography of Union and Confederate Covers
- Author
- Boyd, Steven R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- ISBN 10
- 0807136859
- ISBN 13
- 9780807136850
- Publisher
- Louisiana State University Press
- Place of Publication
- Baton Rouge
- Date Published
- 2010
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...