Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
by Allan Gurganus
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Kington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Allan Gurganis's début novel on the Civil war. Received excellent reviews on publication. Signed and dated 1989 on the ffep. Unread copy, tight, square and sharp. First printing with the FPT to the jacket flap. Only defect is some spotting to the reverse of the jacket.
Synopsis
Allan Gurganus's The Practical Heart (0-679-43763-0) will be published by Knopf in August 2001. He lives in North Carolina.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Scorpion Press (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 142
- Title
- Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
- Author
- Allan Gurganus
- Format/Binding
- Maroon spine made with cloth and green paper over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition and first print.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Pages
- 718
- Size
- 9 1/2" x 6 1/2"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- American literature, Black history, Civil War
Terms of Sale
Scorpion Press
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About the Seller
Scorpion Press
Biblio member since 2019
Kington, Herefordshire
About Scorpion Press
Bookseller in the late 1980's selling via catalogues and fairs. Then migrated to publishing special editions as Scorpion Press. Over 100 titles published including major crime and mystery authors: Dick Francis, Colin Dexter, Ruth Rendell, Ian Rankin, Bernard Cornwell, Len Deighton. Now concentrating on leather rebindings in runs of twelve copies - signed on an author profile page.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...