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FOUR BROTHERS IN BLUE OR SUNSHINE AND SHADOWS OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION: A STORY OF THE GREAT CIVIL WAR FROM BULL RUN TO APPOMATTOX
by Carter, Robert Goldthwaite
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Washington: Press of Gibson Bros., 1913.. xiii,509pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered. Wear to spine ends and corners, gilt fading. Front hinge cracking, text block a bit cocked. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Internally clean. About very good. One hundred copies printed. "Perhaps the best of personal reminiscences" - UNION BOOKSHELF. "Singularly unique, for this volume is composed largely of the letters from the field of four Massachusetts brothers; all served in the Army of the Potomac" - Nevins. HOWES C191, "aa." NEVINS I, p.67. DORNBUSCH II:1646. UNION BOOKSHELF 12.
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- William Reese Company
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- Title
- FOUR BROTHERS IN BLUE OR SUNSHINE AND SHADOWS OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION: A STORY OF THE GREAT CIVIL WAR FROM BULL RUN TO APPOMATTOX
- Author
- Carter, Robert Goldthwaite
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Press of Gibson Bros.
- Place of Publication
- Washington
- Date Published
- 1913.
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....