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The Baltimore and Ohio in the Civil War
by SUMMERS, Festus P
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1879664135
- ISBN 13
- 9781879664135
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Gettysburg: Stan Clark Military Books, 1993. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 304pp. Frontispiece, map endpapers, illustrations, maps. Near fine/near fine. Superb, tight and handsome facsimile reprint of the 1939 first edition, called by Archer Jones "A scholarly study of a strategic railroad in the war, with considerable attention to affairs in West Virginia." NEVINS I, 15.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38977
- Title
- The Baltimore and Ohio in the Civil War
- Author
- SUMMERS, Festus P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1879664135
- ISBN 13
- 9781879664135
- Publisher
- Stan Clark Military Books
- Place of Publication
- Gettysburg
- Date Published
- 1993
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Civil War; Railroad;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- First Edition
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- Tight
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- Reprint
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Facsimile
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