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Book is in good condition. Hard cover has look of age. Interior like new.
Collector's item

The dust jacket shows a bit of aging. The book is in excellent condition. This book is historic. It records 200 years of history of an Institution that was conceived by the Dutch Church during a period of internal crisis, was first chartered in 1766 as Queen's College. Eventually, it was nourished by church as a full-fledged stat university-RUTGERS.

"The mental health ward of a military hospital on a tropical indo-pacific island at the end of Waorl War11". is the setting for the story in this book.
The language is vivid and colorful. A reader is grappled by the plots. Engaging is unforgettable.

Colleen McCullough novel Thorn Birds was a landmark event in her career and it laid the foundation of her excellent story telling as a writer.
The First Man in Rome engages the reader into a vivid world of political intrigue, danger, wars, assassination, upheavel, passionate family alliances and rivalries- and stark realty.
It is hard to put the book away once one begins to read....

FROM THE PUBLISHER
Mathew Brady, one of the foremost early American photographers and one of the earliest war photographers, was official photographer for the Union Army in the Civil War. With his assistants and his horse-drawn photographic wagon, Brady accompanied the troops and recorded the war firsthand. His war pictures are among the greatest war photographs ever taken, and constitute a prized pictorial record of American history.A photographer much in demand by statesmen and celebrities, Brady amassed a gallery of distinguished portraits. Most famous of these is the Brady Lincoln, the photograph used for the engraving of the Lincoln head on the five-dollar bill. There are even photographs of Brady himself. But the heart of the book is the Civil War photographs: Battle Smoke, Union Wounded at Fredericksburg, Burnside's Bridge over the Antietam, Death of a Rebel Sniper, Remains of the Dead at Chancellorsville, Embalming Surgeon at Work, Atlanta Ga. Just After Its Capture, and others. Meredith's… Read More

The book is in excellent condition. Dust Jacket also good. Show a bit of discloring due to age but not noticeable. This is a true narrative of Anderson Prison. John McElroy who was in the firt contingent of Union Prisoners sent to Andersonville and survived its terrors, tells this true story in outspoken words.
General John. H> Einder, boasted of "killing more Yankees than twenty regiments of Lee's Army." And Henri Wirz, commandant of Andersonville, who was later tried and hanged for war crimes.
Ceturies later, one realises the impact of such cruelty on prisoners that would go unnoticed if it was not for soldier's accounts and experiences of such inhuman treatment by those in power.
It is a brilliant piece of text in annals of the Civil War History.

Making of the book in words : "Andrew Wyeth supervised this book step by step. The paintings to be reproduced (almost entire body of his major work) were photographed directly from the originals for this book." Illustration have inscriptions..
Andrew Wyeth grew up surrounded with art and artists. His father Newell C. Wyeth was a distinguished illustrator of his day. His two sister also were artists.
This book is a rare gem. And a part of American History.

Book has 35 maps provided by the author. It is in great condition.