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Absalom Grimes: Confederate Mail Runner
by Grimes, Absalom; Quaife, M. M. (ed.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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High Point, North Carolina, United States
Item Price
NZ$40.66NZ$32.52
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About This Item
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Previous owner's name on ffep. Front hinge and binding sound; rear hinge cracked but holding. Pages clean, tanned. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed and shelf worn, with cloth split at hinge between spine and back. Lettering on spine is dulled. ; Author was a mail carrier for the Confederate Army, running the lines between the two armies to deliver letters. ; Ex-Library; 8.25" tall; 216 pages.
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- Seller
- Cat's Cradle Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 3460132
- Title
- Absalom Grimes: Confederate Mail Runner
- Author
- Grimes, Absalom; Quaife, M. M. (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- HISTORY, UNITED STATES, AMERICA, CONFEDERACY, CONFEDERATE, MILITARY, CIVIL WAR, MEMOIR, AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Americana;
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Shipment immediately upon payment. Returns cheerfully accepted. If return results from our error, we refund price of book plus all shipping costs. if return is for any other reason, buyer pays cost of return shipping.
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High Point, North Carolina
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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