Campfire and Battlefield: An Illustrated History of the Campaigns and Conflicts of the Great Civil War
by Johnson, Rossiter
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Bryan, Taylor & Co, 1894. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio. 551 pages, indexed. Hardcover in blue embossed cloth with gilt title and illustration on front cover. Binding is rubbed, has damping and scuffs. Corners are bumped, rubbed down to boards. Headcap/foot are frayed, have cloth missing. The signature cloth shows. There is a 2 inch long split in the cloth on the right side of the headcap. Cloth on edges of boards is frayed in places. Patterned endpapers. Prior owner's signature on front pastedown, in pencil. "A. H.(?) Patterson, Jany 27, 1902". Text is toned, has dog-eared pages, Some smudges. Page 185 has some pinkish marks in lower right corner. Some pages have ragged edges. There are photographs throughout.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 049886
- Title
- Campfire and Battlefield: An Illustrated History of the Campaigns and Conflicts of the Great Civil War
- Author
- Johnson, Rossiter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Bryan, Taylor & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1894
- Size
- Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
- Weight
- 9.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1894; Rossiter Johnson; Civil War; Robert E Lee; American South; Confederates; Photographs; Military;
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare; Civil War; Military Science & General Military History;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...