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The Children of Pride : A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War
by Myers, Robert Manson
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine condition/VG DJ (2 short closed tears)
- ISBN 10
- 0300031300
- ISBN 13
- 9780300031300
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1984. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No chips or tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Endpaper maps of Georgia in 1860. Subtitle: "Selected Letters of the Family of the Rev. Dr. Charles Colcock Jones from the Years 1860-1868, with the Addition of Several Previously Unpublished Letters." This new edition contains some 500 letters, including a number printed here for the first time. It is a record of family life in coastal Georgia, before, during and after the Civil War. From the Preface: "It is the story of intelligent, perceptive, well-to-do plantation people remote from the public eye... It is a quiet story of births and marriages and deaths, of daily joys and sorrows, of the response of a proud people to one of the great crises of American history... from prewar plenty through wartime privation to postwar ruin... three generations caught in the grip of a national tragedy." Original dark blue cloth. 1st printing of Abridged Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine condition/VG DJ (2 short closed tears). 8vo. xiv, 671pp + 16 pages of illustrations.
Synopsis
Selected Letters of the Family of the Rev. Dr. Charles Colcock Jones from the Years 1860-1868, with the Addition of Several Previously Unpublished Letters.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Children of Pride : A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War
- Author
- Myers, Robert Manson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- VG DJ (2 short closed tears)
- Edition
- 1st printing of Abridged Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0300031300
- ISBN 13
- 9780300031300
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1984
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil War; Americana;
- Size
- 8vo. xiv, 671pp + 16 pages of illustrations
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