Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers and Soldiers While Prisoners of War in the Hands of the Rebel Authorities. Being the Report of a Commission of Inquiry, Appointed by the United States Sanitary Commission.
by Mott, Valentine with Edward Delafield, Gouverneur Morris Wilkins, Ellerslie Wallace, Hon J.I.Clark & Rev Treadwell Walden (Members of Commission)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Weare,, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
King & Baird. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Sun faded cloth with pebbled texture and gilt titles. Former library markings in white on spine, head and foot of spine cloth missing - No other indications of library association save peforated stamp to title page and notations on copyright page. The boards show edge and corner wear, but the whole is tightly bound and unmarked. .
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- Bookseller
- Boomer's Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22758
- Title
- Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers and Soldiers While Prisoners of War in the Hands of the Rebel Authorities. Being the Report of a Commission of Inquiry, Appointed by the United States Sanitary Commission.
- Author
- Mott, Valentine with Edward Delafield, Gouverneur Morris Wilkins, Ellerslie Wallace, Hon J.I.Clark & Rev Treadwell Walden (Members of Commission)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- King & Baird
- Date Published
- 1864
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military - American Civil War;
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Boomer's Books
Biblio member since 2003
Weare,, New Hampshire
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