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Dan Sickles: Hero of Gettysburg and "Yankee King of Spain
by Pinchon, Edgcumb
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. xiv, [1], 280 pages, [2]. Frontispiece photograph of Sickles. Illustrations. Green cloth hardcover with title on the spine. Dust jacket is tattered, torn, creased and in pieces. The dust jacket parts are laid inside the book. Light shelf wear to the hardcover. Inscription on the right front flyleaf reads - "To Grandad from Wilbur G. Kurtz III Christmas 1945." Grandad is Wilbur Kurtz, Atlanta historian and illustrator. Research notes are hand written on the right front flyleaf, title page, on the rear blank end paper, and the rear flyleaf. An old Atlanta Journal news clipping from Nov. 12, 1962 is pasted down on the verso of the index page. The article concerns the amputated leg of Dan Sickles. Sickles lost his leg at Gettysburg. The leg was "prettied up" and put on display at the Army Medical Museum's centennial celebration in Washington.
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- Bookseller
- Americana Books ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15168
- Title
- Dan Sickles: Hero of Gettysburg and "Yankee King of Spain
- Author
- Pinchon, Edgcumb
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran and Co
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- Union
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Stone Mountain, Georgia
About Americana Books ABAA
Americana Books in business since 1993 specializing in American History and Americana. Member ABAA ( Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America)
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- Octavo
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- Fair
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