AMERICAN ILIAD: The Epic Story of the Civil War as Narrated By Eyewitnesses and Contemporaries
by Eisenschiml, Otto and Newman, Ralph
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1947. 720 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Spine a bit sunned. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Previous bookstore's label on front paste-down. "H.2.5.3-A" written on front blank endpaper. Small tear to bottom of title page. Illust. w/ b/w plates. Contents nice.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M860CW
- Title
- AMERICAN ILIAD: The Epic Story of the Civil War as Narrated By Eyewitnesses and Contemporaries
- Author
- Eisenschiml, Otto and Newman, Ralph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis and New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- MILITARY HISTORY CIVIL WAR 1861 1865 AMERICAN ILIAD FORT SUMTER FIRST BATTLE BULL RUN 1861 MANASSAS VIRGINIA STATE HISTORY VA LOCAL PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN VALLEY CAMPAIGN MONITOR MERRIMAC DUEL FORT DONELSON BATTLE SHILOH SECOND BATTLE BULL RUN 1862 BATTLE AN
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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