Ploughshares into Swords Josiah Gorgas & Confederate Ordnance. by Vandiver, Frank E - 1952

University of Texas Press, Austin Reprint, c.1977, 2nd.trade paperbk.prtg. (orig.c.1958), 349pp., VG $

University of Texas Press, Austin Reprint, c.1977, 2nd.trade paperbk.prtg. (orig.c.1958), 349pp., VG $

University of Texas Press: Austin, January 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good - Cash/No Jacket. Light gray tweed hardboards, red emblem on face, lettering on spine. Spine is yellowing, minor wear. P/O name on ffep. Clean text. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

University of Texas Press, 1952, 1st., 8vo., cloth, 349pp., ex-lib.- spine label, pocket, stamps, G $

VANDIVER, Frank E. Ploughshares into Swords. Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance. Austin, TX; Univesity of Texas Press, 1952. 1st ed. xiv, 349 pp. Portrait frontis. Orig. pictorial cloth. A near fine copy. "This scholarly account of Gorgas' activities amounts to a complete history of Confederate Ordnance." Nevins I, p. 19.

1952. VANDIVER, Frank E. Ploughshares Into Swords. Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance. Austin, 1952. 1st ed. Frontis. xiv, 349pp. A fine copy in orig. cloth, slightly worn d/j.

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & dated by Author on front endpaper. Gorgas was Chief of Ordnance of the Confederate Army charged with supplying an almost completely agrarian nation with the arms, ammunition, and industries necessary to keep its armies in the field against a mighty northern industrial foe. Very Good Plus: front endpaper creased. Good dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover: small tears at corners, at spine ends and along top back edge. Ships same or next business day. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 349 pages; Signed by Author .