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Camp Ford: A Western Story
by Johnny D. Boggs
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1594141290
- ISBN 13
- 9781594141294
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2005 Five Star, Waterville, ME. 2005. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($25.95). White and red pictorial laminate boards and spine with black and red lettering on the spine and front board; DJ matches Boards. 264 pp 8vo. This is a book that combines three American icons; The Civil War, The Old West, and baseball in its earliest form. Win MacNaughton remembers those games between Union prisoners and Confederate guards. Win fought in the Civil War as a Union Soldier and was captured in Louisiana and sent to Camp Ford in Texas. To help pass the time baseball games are proposed and become the most important things in their lives much to the Confederate consternation. A clean pristine copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013573
- Title
- Camp Ford: A Western Story
- Author
- Johnny D. Boggs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1594141290
- ISBN 13
- 9781594141294
- Publisher
- Five Star
- Place of Publication
- Waterville, ME
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Western Fiction, Civil War Fiction, Baseball fiction, Camp Ford, Win MacNaughton, Union Army Prisoner of War, Confederate Army, friendship, betrayal, love of baseball, Johnny D. Boggs,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Baseball; Civil War;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Fine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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