Agriculture and the Civil War by Paul W. Gates - 1964

Knopf. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Knopf, 1965. Octavo. Red cloth boards stamped in gold with red topstain. Book is very good. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Light highlighting throughout and a dent on back top board edge. Price-clipped dust jacket is very good with shelf wear, tears, and a four-inch tear on front bottom edge. Book placed in custom acetate protector. 383 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. Study of & statistics on various aspects of agriculture north & south, how the war affected them, and how they affected the war, from labor & animal shortages to the surprising damage caused by the use of southern fencewood as fuel by northern soldiers. First of the "Impact of the Civil War" series, examining how the war changed the country in the 100 years since its end. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; stated first edition (first printing). Light wear to book, upper corner bumped, affecting some pages; jacket edgeworn with chips & tears. Text clean; [2], x, [4], 383, blank, xiii pages + colophon; index, note on sources, map, 8 b/w plates mostly reproducing period illustrations. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. Hard cover. Very good/Good. First edition. Jacket is worn and chipped along edges. Two inch tear from top edge of jacket back cover along back cover hinge. Jacket is lightly tanned with some light smudge marks on jacket back cover, but text is legible. Top corner of front jacket flap is clipped, not affecting legibility. Cover corners are lightly worn. Spine is bumped and shaken, but binding is secure. Inside is clean and unmarked.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. (1st edition). Hardcover. GOOD. Ex-library with expected markings. Tight, bright, clean with faintest tilt to spine. Red cloth with gilt lettering and trim on spine and black Series imprint on front cover. A few pages with pencil marks. No DJ. "First book of 'A Series planned by the Civil War Centennial Commission' devoted to many different facets of wartime development: challenge and response, retardation and growth, sort-term influence and long term impact..(ranging from) constitutional and statutory law to poverty, crime and charities, from business organization to medicine and surgery. 383 annotated pages plus 13 page index. 6.75x9.75x1.5"