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Christmas with Robert E. Lee
by Miller, Helen Topping
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, London and Toronto: Longmans, Green & Co., 1958. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. 79 pages. Hardcover with a white, orange and green dust jacket. The jacket is rubbed and foxed but sound. Jacket is price-clipped. The book itself shows light wear. There is some foxing to the endpapers. The text is a little toned but generally clean. A fictional story of General Robert E. Lee's first Christmas at home after the surrender at Appomattox at the end of the Civil War. Helen Topping Miller (1884-1960) was born in Michigan and moved to Morristown, Tennessee in 1908. She married a journalist there in 1910 and spent time teaching and writing there, in Georgia, and North Carolina (she lived near Asheville from 1924 to 1942). She wrote a number of novels and short stories and poems and began to write more historical fiction in the 1940s. She wrote several Christmas stories with historical figures, beginning with "Christmas at the Hermitage" in 1955.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044668
- Title
- Christmas with Robert E. Lee
- Author
- Miller, Helen Topping
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York, London and Toronto
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- 1958; Helen Topping Miller; Robert E. Lee; History; Historical Novel; Fiction; Michigan; North Carolina; Tennessee; Civil War.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil War; North Carolina Literature; Southern Literature;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...