OUR CAMPAIGNS: THE SECOND REGIMENT PENNSYLVANIA RESERVE VOLUNTEERS, OR, THE MARCHES, BIVOUACS, BATTLES, INCIDENTS OF CAMP LIFE AND HISTORY OF OUR REGIMENT DURINGS ITS THREE YEAR TERM OF SERVICE
by Woodward, C. Vann
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphis PA: John E. Potter and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. A clean, tight copy of the presumed first edition, handsomely rebound in navy blue buckram with gilt titles. There is a charming bookplate at the front, but no signs of use in the text. The book was printed on good quality paper which has foxed very minimally. There is slight rippling of the pages, but not from exposure to water. A very worthy book! Fast shipping, careful packing, with tracking number provided. ; 362 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Autumn Leaves Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43040
- Title
- OUR CAMPAIGNS: THE SECOND REGIMENT PENNSYLVANIA RESERVE VOLUNTEERS, OR, THE MARCHES, BIVOUACS, BATTLES, INCIDENTS OF CAMP LIFE AND HISTORY OF OUR REGIMENT DURINGS ITS THREE YEAR TERM OF SERVICE
- Author
- Woodward, C. Vann
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John E. Potter and Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphis PA
- Date Published
- 1865
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About the Seller
Autumn Leaves Books
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About Autumn Leaves Books
Internet only, in business since 2000, specializing in the obscure, the scholarly, the unusual. Most jackets are mylar-protected.
Glossary
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
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