John Brown's Body
by Benet Stephen Vincent
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Rinehart & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. Original grey flecked covers, an illustrated blue horse with a soldier, orange titltes to the spine. In Very Good condition, a tight binding, clean & unmarked pages. Foxing to the top edges, browing to the cover edges. Illustrations by Fritz Kredel and Warren Chappell. The DJ is Very Good with browing to the back cover, cover edgewear, and spine end chipping. "One of the most widely read poems of our time, John Brown s Body is Stephen Vincent Benet s masterful retelling of the Civil War. A book of great energy and sweep, it swings into view the entire course of that terrible and decisive war, lighting up the lives of soldiers, leaders, and civilians, North and South, amidst the conflict. Generations of readers have found the book a compelling and moving experience.' ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 368 pages .
Synopsis
An American folk-epic which depicts the events of the Civil War.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26407
- Title
- John Brown's Body
- Author
- Benet Stephen Vincent
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Rinehart & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Military History > Civil War, American History, POETRY, African American
- Bookseller catalogs
- United States; Military; Poetry; War;
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About the Seller
Bytown Bookery
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Vars, Ontario
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Spine
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- Jacket
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