The Life of Sergeant I. W. Ambler: ('Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction') Embracing His Nativity, Poverty, and Toil When but a Child in Coal mines of England; His Connection With the British Army, Sufferings and Dissipation; His Escape to the Unites States
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- Condition
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Lincoln, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Lee and Shepard, 1883 Hardcover Publisher: Lee and Shepard, 1883 Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1883. Very Good minus. 12mo = 7-9". Deep maroon cloth hard covers with gilt illustrations, embossed decoration, gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece photo of Sergeant Ambler. Contains 12 pen and ink illustrated plates. 311 pages + app. 60 pages of memoirs in the rear. A nice example of the second printing
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- The Book Moose (US)
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- Title
- The Life of Sergeant I. W. Ambler: ('Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction') Embracing His Nativity, Poverty, and Toil When but a Child in Coal mines of England; His Connection With the British Army, Sufferings and Dissipation; His Escape to the Unites States
- Format/Binding
- No Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Lee and Shepard
- Date Published
- 1883
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil War;
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- 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....
- Cloth
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- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...