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Andersonville
by MacKinlay Kantor
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- Seller
-
Tomball, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Stated first edition; signed on a special limitation page by the author for members of the Civil War Book Club. A very good book in a good plus dust jacket. A clean and tight copy of this classic work of Civil War literature. This book is in very good condition with some sunning to the boards, light soiling to the text block and boards, and a PO bookplate to the front pastedown; the binding is tight, the pages are white to off-white, very mild shelf wear to the spine ends and edges. Housed in a good plus original, completely intact dust jacket that is clean and bright with moderate shelf wear including some rubbing and chipping to the ends, edges, and corners. some advanced rubbing and creasing to the folds and flap edges, and also a couple of closed tears to the back panel and one to the spine across the "v"; not price clipped (5.00 price intact), not remaindered, not ex-library; overall, a handsome copy rarely found in collectible condition, particularly signed. In archival protection.
Synopsis
"The greatest of our Civil War novels."— The New York Times . The 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration camp-like prison by the South during the Civil War.
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Details
- Seller
- Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 3050
- Title
- Andersonville
- Author
- MacKinlay Kantor
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- World Publishing
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1955
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- First Edition, Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil War;
Terms of Sale
Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA
Bryan H. Young D.V.M.dba Grayshelf Books, 19111 Desert Eagle Dr., Tomball, Tx 77377Email - bhydvm@gmail.comWe accept payment by Paypal, Visa, Mastercard, checks, or money orders.Texas residents please add 8% sales tax.We guarantee all books to be as described.Additional scans of books will be provided upon request.
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About the Seller
Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Tomball, Texas
About Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA
Grayshelf Books is an online collectors library originating out of the love of collecting rare books. We specialize, but are not limited to, modern first editions from the 20th and 21st century. We also maintain inventory of rare works in the Science Fiction and Horror genres. We guarantee all of our books in regards to condition stated on the listings and all books are protected in mylar covers and shipped with the utmost care in sturdy boxes. Thanks for viewing our listings!
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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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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