New York: Pageant Book Company, 1956 Book. Very Good - Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. Large 8vo. ix, 542 pp, Introduction by Homer Croy; Preface; List of b&w Maps and Illustrations; I. The Quantrill Family; II. Early Life of Quantrill; III. From Ohio to Kansas; IV. Quantrill in Kansas and Utah; V. Quantrill as a Kansas Teacher; VI. Quantrill as Charley Hart -- Lawrence; VII. Quantrill as Charley Hart -- A Border Ruffian at Lawrance; VIII. Quantrill as Charley Hart -- A Jayhawker at Lawrence; IX & X. Quantrill as Charley Hart -- The Traitor -- The Morgan Walker Raid; XI. Quantrill the Frosworn -- What He Told the Missourians; XII. Aftermath of the Morgan Walker Raid; XIII. Quantrill's Return to Kansas; XIV. Quantrill Becomes a Guerrilla; XV. Conditions in Missouri; XVI. Quantril ecomes Norotious -- Aubry and Other Skirmishes; XVII. Quantrill Outlawed -- Big Blue Bridge -- Tate House; XVIII. Quantrill, The Guerrilla Chief -- Pink Hill -- The Clark Farm -- At Sni Ford -- The Lowe House; XIX. Quantrill in the Summer of 1862; XX. Quantrill at Independence; XXI. Quantrill A Confederate Captain; XXII. Quantrill Goes to Richmond, Virginia; XXIII-XXVIII. The Lawrence Massacre; XXIX. The Lawrence Massacre -- Incidents of the Massacre; XXX. The Lawrence Massacre -- Departure of the Guerrillas; XXXI. The Lawrence Massacre -- Pursuit of the Guerrillas; XXXII. The Baxter Springs Massacre; XXXIV. Quantrill in the Summer of 1864; XXXV. Quantrill Leaves Missouri; XXXVI. Quantrill in Kentucky; XXXVII. Quantrill the Fatalist; XXXVIII. The Last Battle; XXXIX. Death. Not a Book Club Edition. Reprint 1956. Lightly age-toned text block edges and gutters, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine..

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Bookseller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 004093
Title: Quantrill and the Border Wars
Author: Connelley, William Elsey
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good - Fine
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Pageant Book Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1956
Keywords: U.S. CIVIL WAR BIOGRAPHY QUANTRILL WILLIAM CLARKE (1837-1865) CONFEDERATE GUERRILLA BORDER WARS
Bookseller catalogs: U.S. CIVIL WAR;
Size: Large 8vo

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Book Club Edition: A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
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...
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...
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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....
Marginalia: Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...