General Orders, Adjutant General's Office, 1881
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Washington: Government Printing Office. Good. 1881. Hardcover. The United States Army General Orders for the year 1881. Three-quarter leather over marbled paper boards. Leather is heavily rubbed and scuffed. Binding tight. Speckled edges, edge toning on endpapers, and vertical folds in most of the orders. Light soil on a few pages. 28 pp index, 93 orders, [8] pp forms. The order announcing James A. Garfield's death is the only signed order, by RC Drum, Adjutant General. It is followed by the announcement of Chester A. Arthur taking the oath of office. A fold-out table lists clothing allowances, a legal opinion from the Department of Justice explains a case of miners who were claiming mineral rights on Fort Maginnis, Montana land, and a 41-page order gives the budget details of funds appropriated by Congress in 1881. ; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Back of Beyond Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010926
- Title
- General Orders, Adjutant General's Office, 1881
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Place of Publication
- Washington
- Date Published
- 1881
- Keywords
- Fort Maginnis, James A. Garfield, Thomas L. Crittenden
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Moab, Utah
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Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
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- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.