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No Better Place To Die; The Battle Of Stones River
by Cozzens, Peter
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0252016521
- ISBN 13
- 9780252016523
- Seller
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About This Item
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/fine. Signed first edition of No Better Place To Die by Peter Cozzens.. Octavo, xi, 281pp. Blue cloth, title in silver on spine. Full number line on copyright page. Light foxing along top edge of text block, not affecting the text. In publisher's fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Peter Cozzens is an award winning author of numerous books on the Civil War and the Indian Wars of the American West. He served as a Foreign Service Officer for the United States Department of State and was awarded the department's William R. Rivkin award for service in 2002. He is the recipient of the 2017 Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize and the 2016 Caroline Bancroft Prize for history. Some of his works include: The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West (2016), This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga (1992), and The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga (1994). His next book will be Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied A Nation, expected in 2020.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2673
- Title
- No Better Place To Die; The Battle Of Stones River
- Author
- Cozzens, Peter
- Illustrator
- Signed first edition of No Better Place To Die by Peter Cozzens.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0252016521
- ISBN 13
- 9780252016523
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication
- Urbana
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- first edition Peter Cozzens, signed book Peter Cozzens, Tecumseh and the Prophet Cozzens, The Earth is Weeping Cozzens, This Terrible Sound Cozzens, The Shipwreck of their Hopes Cozzens, Battle of Chattanooga, Battle of Chickamauga, The Indian Wars
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