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JOURNAL OF ARMY LIFE
by Glisan, R
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair Only
- Seller
-
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco, CA: A.L. Bancroft and Company, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Only. San Francisco, CA: A. L. Bancroft and Company, 1874. First edition. 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches: pp. xii, 511. Blue cloth with gilt decoration on cover and spine. With foldout meterological observations chart [creased], illustrations.
Corners worn, some fraying at edges and top of spine and lower spine end chipped. Spine a little faded, some darkening to front edge of cover, rear board scuffed and scratched. Sticker with the number 1905 affixed to bottom spine. Owner stamp and name written in pencil on free facing end page. Foxing. Pages are unmarked. Front and back hinges cracked, binding shaken but holds.
NOTE: This is a fairly rough but all there READING COPY. Extracts from the author's private journal as a medical officer in the army. With his accounts of Garrison life and the Oregon and Washington Territorial Indian wars from 1855-58.
Corners worn, some fraying at edges and top of spine and lower spine end chipped. Spine a little faded, some darkening to front edge of cover, rear board scuffed and scratched. Sticker with the number 1905 affixed to bottom spine. Owner stamp and name written in pencil on free facing end page. Foxing. Pages are unmarked. Front and back hinges cracked, binding shaken but holds.
NOTE: This is a fairly rough but all there READING COPY. Extracts from the author's private journal as a medical officer in the army. With his accounts of Garrison life and the Oregon and Washington Territorial Indian wars from 1855-58.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 342
- Title
- JOURNAL OF ARMY LIFE
- Author
- Glisan, R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Only
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- A.L. Bancroft and Company
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco, CA
- Date Published
- 1874
- Keywords
- Military, Western Americana,Oregon Washington Territory Indian Wars
Terms of Sale
Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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About the Seller
Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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Eugene, Oregon
About Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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- Fair
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- Cloth
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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...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- 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....
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
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