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A Biographical Memorial of General Daniel Butterfield, Including Many Addresses and Military Writings
by Butterfield, Daniel; Butterfield, Julia Lorrilard (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket; Usual markings and withdrawal stamp, moderate wear to boards, front hinge cracked.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: The Grafton Press. Good with no dust jacket; Usual markings and withdrawal stamp, moderate . wear to boards, front hinge cracked.. 1904. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 numbered copies published for private distribution. Blue cloth with gilt heraldic center device on front boards and title in gilt on spine. Top edges gilt. Frontispiece engraved portrait of Butterfield and his facsimile signature. xii, 379pp, index. Broadfoot p. 88. Many illustrations and photo reproductions. Ex-historical society copy. A presentation copy from the Union General’s widow and editor, with her calling card affixed to front pastedown endpaper along with Long Island Historical Society bookplate bearing manuscript notation that the book was presented by Mrs. Daniel Butterfield of New York City. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43198
- Title
- A Biographical Memorial of General Daniel Butterfield, Including Many Addresses and Military Writings
- Author
- Butterfield, Daniel; Butterfield, Julia Lorrilard (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket; Usual markings and withdrawal stamp, moderate wear to boards, front hinge cracked.
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- The Grafton Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1904
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- UNION Generals, Daniel Butterfield, American Civil War
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography and Memoir; Civil War;
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Old Saratoga Books
We are happy to provide a refund within thirty days of the customer's receipt of any book(s) upon return of the book(s) to our shop.
About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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