POLTROONS AND PATRIOTS: A Popular Account of the War of 1812/Two (2) Volume Set
by Tucker, Glenn
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1954. Original blue cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Bindings moderately soiled and rubbed. Spines a bit sunned. Light foxing to edges of text blocks and endpapers. Vol. 2 rear hinge starting. Both volumes illust. w/ b/w plates.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by W. T. Tucker (Maps). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M2962RW
- Title
- POLTROONS AND PATRIOTS: A Popular Account of the War of 1812/Two (2) Volume Set
- Author
- Tucker, Glenn
- Illustrator
- W. T. Tucker (Maps)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis and New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- MILITARY HISTORY WAR OF 1812 1815 UNITED STATES BRITISH EMPIRE NORTH AMERICA WARFARE AMERICAN HISTORY WORLD HISTORY GREAT BRITAIN AMERICANA NONFICTION GENERAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military - War of 1812;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Sunned
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- Edges
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