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McClellan's Own Story: The War for the Union - The Soldiers Who Fought It - The Civilians Who Directed It - And His Relations To It And to Them
by McClellan, George B
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. Good with no dust jacket. 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Rubbing and some abrasions to cloth boards. Inner hinges broken. 2" adhesive tape repair to the front free endpaper. Moderate foxing to the frontispiece plate. Some foxing to preliminary leaves. No signatures. Internally good. ; First UK edition. xiv, 678 pages + engraved portrait frontispiece + 13 other illustrations, including full page maps, full page illustrations, in-text illustrations, and a double page fac-simile of one of McClellan's despatches. Green cloth boards with gilt and red illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 242 x 151mm. Military history, American Civil War.; 4to .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12633
- Title
- McClellan's Own Story: The War for the Union - The Soldiers Who Fought It - The Civilians Who Directed It - And His Relations To It And to Them
- Author
- McClellan, George B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1887
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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