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Andersonville
by Kantor, MacKinlay
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New with No dust jacket as issued
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library. As New with No dust jacket as issued. 1976. Limited Edition. First Printing. Leather. Publisher's full blue leather, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in three compartments, gilt tooling in remainder; gilt borders and tooling on covers, all edges gilt, moire silk endpapers, silk ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with B&W plates by Joseph Smith. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1956. "Acclaimed as the greatest novel ever written about the War Between the States, this searing Pulitzer Prize-winning book captures all the glory and shame of America's most tragic conflict in the vivid, crowded world of Andersonville, and the people who lived outside its barricades. Based on the author's extensive research and nearly twenty-five years in the making, MacKinlay Kantor's bestselling masterwork tells the heartbreaking story of the notorious Georgia prison where 50,000 Northern soldiers suffered - and 14,000 died - and of the people whose lives were changed by the grim camp where the best and the worst of the Civil War came together." . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition; unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW.. B&W Plates. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. (xvi), 897 pp .
Synopsis
"The greatest of our Civil War novels."— The New York Times . The 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration camp-like prison by the South during the Civil War.
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28218
- Title
- Andersonville
- Author
- Kantor, MacKinlay
- Illustrator
- Joseph Smith
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- New As New with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- Limited Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Fine Binding;, Kantor, MacKinlay;, Franklin Library;, The 100 Greatest Books of All Time;, Pulitzer Prize;, Gift Ideas;, Civil War;, Novels;, Andersonville;
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Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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