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RECOLLECTIONS AND LETTERS OF GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE
by Lee, Captain Robert E
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Good +
- Seller
-
Rougemont, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909. Cloth. Good +. A Good + copy. 8vo., xii, (i), 461 pp., illustrated with a portrait frontispiece,and b&w photographic plates. Bound in grey cloth with confederate flag in gilt field, bordered by green laurel leaves. Spine sunned, with wear at the spine's crown. Lower front tip bumped. The frontispiece's tissue guard is foxed, with some transferring to the frontispiece and title page. Other plates clean with clean tissue guards. Previous owner's inscription and 1915 date on a front end paper.
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- Bookseller
- Frey Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31960
- Title
- RECOLLECTIONS AND LETTERS OF GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE
- Author
- Lee, Captain Robert E
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- Civil war, southern
Terms of Sale
Frey Fine Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Frey Fine Books
Biblio member since 2019
Rougemont, North Carolina
About Frey Fine Books
Antiquarian bookseller, with over 15 years experience.
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- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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