Army Life in a Black Regiment
by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Arvada, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1870. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. Higginson was the white colonel charged with organizing and leading a slave regiment in South Carolina. Green cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Brown endpapers slightly cracked at gutter but binding is tight. Several pages have brown stain (coffee?) at bottom corner up to 3 inches but not into the print. Cloth at top and bottom of spine is frayed and a few white stains are on front board. A barely visible name and 1881 date are written on the dark brown front free endpaper. Scarce original edition.
Synopsis
R. D. Madison is a professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He has edited several volumes of military and naval history, including William Bligh and Edward Christian’s The Bounty Mutiny for Penguin Classics.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Algonquin Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15963
- Title
- Army Life in a Black Regiment
- Author
- Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Fields, Osgood
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1870
- Keywords
- American Civil War; African American, black history
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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About the Seller
Old Algonquin Books
Biblio member since 2006
Arvada, Colorado
About Old Algonquin Books
Old Algonquin Books. owned by John and Helen Dunning, was an open store in Denver from 1984-1994. and has been an online business since then. Member: Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA).All books with dust jackets have removable mylar covers on the jackets unless otherwise noted. First edition also means first printing unless otherwise noted.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
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