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The War of the Revolution
by Christopher Ward; Edited by John Richard Alden
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/very good +
- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1952. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/very good +. A very near fine two-volume set, complete, in a very good plus slipcase. Only flaw to books is previous owner's bookstamp on first free endpaper of each volume. Blue cloth boards with red and gold title stamping to spine. Green slipcase has lost a bit of cloth on the top, shows shelfwear on front edge, and unopened cracks at corners with sunning stripe to rear. xiv, 989 pp. : maps. Octavo A remarkable account of the military aspects of the American Revolution. Ward provides graphic portrayals of the fortifications, the terrain over which battles were fought, the part the Indians played, the technology of gunnery and the hundreds of details that go to make up the broad scope of the War of the North, the War of the South, and the War of the Border. ---worldcat
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- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1190
- Title
- The War of the Revolution
- Author
- Christopher Ward; Edited by John Richard Alden
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
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