Ulysses S. Grant: And the Period of National Preservation and Reconstruction
by William Conant Church
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/No Jacket
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket. Part of the Heroes of the Nations Series. Maroon cloth, half pebbled, half smooth, ruled in gilt with device on front cover stamped in gilt. Titles on spine boxed and ruled with decoration stamped in gilt. Illustrated with pictures and numerous maps, three of which are fold-outs, frontispiece portrait of Grant with tissue guard, 473 pages with 4 pages of ads. Clean, unmarked copy with soild binding, seldom found in this condition.
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- The Book Shelf
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008833
- Title
- Ulysses S. Grant: And the Period of National Preservation and Reconstruction
- Author
- William Conant Church
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1897
- Keywords
- CIVIL WAR BIOGRAPHY
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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...
- Device
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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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....
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
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