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The War Hits Home: The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia
by WILLS, Brian Steel
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0813920272
- ISBN 13
- 9780813920276
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 345pp. Illustrations, maps, map endpapers. Near fine/fine. A tight and handsome first edition of this volume in editor James I. Robertson Jr.'s "A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History" series. Boldly inscribed and signed by the author in black fineline on the title page: "Ralph -- / I enjoyed meeting you / again and getting to know / you on the Delta Queen. / Enjoy with my best wishes, / Brian Wills / Sept. 25, 2005." "Ralph" is noted medical history scholar and pediatric infectious disease specialist Ralph C. Gordon.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37423
- Title
- The War Hits Home: The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia
- Author
- WILLS, Brian Steel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0813920272
- ISBN 13
- 9780813920276
- Publisher
- University Press of Virginia
- Place of Publication
- Charlottesville
- Date Published
- 2001
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Civil War;
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