1776
by David McCullough
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0743226712
- ISBN 13
- 9780743226714
- Seller
-
Watertown , Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
This is a signed first edition of 1776. The book and dust jacket are in very good condition, with some slight foxing on both and a small dusty edge to the bottom. The dust jacket is not price clipped. There is a sticker from The Bunch of Grapes Book Store on Martha's Vineyard where Mr. McCullough had a home for many years.
Synopsis
In this stirring book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper. Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the King’s men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. Here also is the Revolution as experienced by American Loyalists, Hessian mercenaries, politicians, preachers, traitors, spies, men and women of all kinds caught in the paths of war. At the center of the drama, with Washington, are two young American patriots, who, at first, knew no more of war than what they had read in books Nathanael Greene, a Quaker who was made a general at thirty-three, and Henry Knox, a twenty-five-year-old bookseller who had the preposterous idea of hauling the guns of Fort Ticonderoga overland to Boston in the dead of winter.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Isham Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MV1101
- Title
- 1776
- Author
- David McCullough
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0743226712
- ISBN 13
- 9780743226714
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 386
- Keywords
- First edition, signed first edition,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed first editions; Martha’s Vineyard books;
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Isham Books
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- First Edition
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