LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR, CAPTURE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS
by HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Slight Toning of Edges
- Seller
-
Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868. A four-page letter from the annals of the US House, 40th Congress, Second Session, Ex. Doc. No. 115. Transmitting all information on file relative to the capture of J. Davis. Held together with two staples. The letter is signed Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. It contains a list of eight officers and 145 enlisted men under Captain Hathaway of the fourth Michigan cavalry, who were present at the capture. Housed in a cloth-covered slipcase and chemise, leather spine label. . First Edition. Unbound. Slight Toning of Edges. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013280
- Title
- LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR, CAPTURE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS
- Author
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Slight Toning of Edges
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Place of Publication
- Washington
- Date Published
- 1868
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Americana, Jefferson Davis, American Confederacy, Civil War
- Bookseller catalogs
- Pritchard;
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- First Edition
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- Unbound
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- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...