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A Blockaded Family Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War
by Hague, Parthenia Antoinette
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo. [1], vi, 176 pages, 16 pages advertisements. Light cloth hardcover with green title on the front cover. Gilt title on the spine. Slight lean to the binding. Light soil to the cloth covers. Front and rear hinges are cracked. Text block slightly shaken with cords visible in some of the gutters. Binding still secure. Pages clean. A fair copy.
Tall Cotton 76; Nevins II page 191 - Good on war imposed innovations in farming and experiments in "ersatz" on a plantation near Eufaula, Ala.
Tall Cotton 76; Nevins II page 191 - Good on war imposed innovations in farming and experiments in "ersatz" on a plantation near Eufaula, Ala.
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- Bookseller
- Americana Books ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27819
- Title
- A Blockaded Family Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War
- Author
- Hague, Parthenia Antoinette
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1888
- Keywords
- Confederacy
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Stone Mountain, Georgia
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- 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....
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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,...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- ALA
- American Library Association
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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