War Letters of a Disbanded Volunteer. Embracing His Experiences as Honest Old Abe's Bosom Friend and Unofficial Adviser.
by (Barber, Joseph)
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor/No Jacket
- Seller
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Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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About This Item
New York: Frederic A. Brady, 1864. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 312pp. Blind stamped black boards with gilt stamped decoration to front cover. Covers and frontispiece detached but present, backstrip missing, owner's name, bookplate and pencil notations on front pastedown, bookplate of Military Historical Society of Massachusetts on rear pastedown, text is mildly age-toned, edges darkened, but text is otherwise quite sound and clean. Humorous account written phonetically in the local vernacular.
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- Bookseller
- Old Bookshelf (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001799
- Title
- War Letters of a Disbanded Volunteer. Embracing His Experiences as Honest Old Abe's Bosom Friend and Unofficial Adviser.
- Author
- (Barber, Joseph)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Frederic A. Brady
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1864
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Civil War" Lincoln
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History; Military; Americana;
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...