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Battle of Fort Stedman (Petersburg, Virginia) -- March 25, 1865
by William H. Hodgkins
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Waccabuc, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Privately Printed, 1889. Cloth. Very Good. The uncommon privately-printed 1889 1st edition. Ex-libris, with the Martha Culver Memorial Library (Montowese, Connecticut) plate at the front pastedown and a mostly-peeled library pocket to the rear pastedown. Otherwise clean and very solid in its olive-green cloth, with immaculate gilt-titling along the spine. Solid and easily VG to VG+, apart from the 2 signs of ex-libris. Thin octavo, also includes a fold-out map ("Battle of Ft. Stedman March 25th '65") at the frontispiece.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20606
- Title
- Battle of Fort Stedman (Petersburg, Virginia) -- March 25, 1865
- Author
- William H. Hodgkins
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Privately Printed
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- rare Civil War, rare Americana, rare Civil War battles, The Battle of Fort Stedman, rare Virginia battles at the close of the Civil War
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil War;
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
All books are offered subject to prior sale. Materials are returnable within 1 week of receipt provided prior notice is given.
About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
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Glossary
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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....
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