Recollections of a Varied Life
by Eggleston, George Cary
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Marshfield Hills, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1910. Hardcover. Fair. Memoirs of Indiana author who published a popular account of his time in the Confederate Army in the Atlantic Monthly. Octavo, viii, 354 pp. Burgundy cloth. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Gift inscription to earlier owners on ffep. Several pages show penciled check-marks and marginalia in Donald's hand. Back hinge cracked; front hinge starting. All said, a serviceable reference copy.
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- Bookseller
- Black Paw Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7932
- Title
- Recollections of a Varied Life
- Author
- Eggleston, George Cary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- George Cary Eggleston; Edward Eggleston; Hearth and Home magazine , A Rebel's Recollections
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- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Cloth
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- Octavo
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- Fair
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- Hinge
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- 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...