Custer's Luck
by STEWART, Edgar I
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1955. Hardcover. Stated second printing, September 1955. A detailed examination of the military career of General George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876). In this work, author Edgar I. Stewart details Custer's Civil War record and subsequent Indian Wars actions, culminating with his demise at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. With a couple of fold-out maps and black & white photos on plates scattered through the volume. --- In olive cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped titling on maroon spine block; maroon topstain. Jacket features color reproduction of Jahn Hauser's "The Challenge" to front panel. --- An excellent copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked, though with acidic stains to front endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine and a few small tears & chips, else intact and wrapped in removable mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xvi, 522 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84817
- Title
- Custer's Luck
- Author
- STEWART, Edgar I
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- The University of Oklahoma Press
- Place of Publication
- Norman
- Date Published
- 1955
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir; >>Military and Military Leaders;
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
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- Spine
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- Sunned
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
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