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Decisive Day The Battle for Bunker Hill
by Ketchum, Richard M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. Book of the Month Club Printing. Very near fine in textured, red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 1/8" by 5 1/2" with crimping of the cloth at the heel of the spine and with light rubbing over the same. In a very good+ dust jacket with the "Book Club Edition" slug at the lower corner of the front flap and with two very short, inconsequential, closed tears at the upper edge of the spine area. 282 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with maps and photographic reproductions of contemporary works of art. This revised edition add a new forward and is "an expanded and fully illustrated edition of The Battle For Bunker Hill". The original, first edition was published by American Heritage in 1962.
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- Seller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- TB23462
- Title
- Decisive Day The Battle for Bunker Hill
- Author
- Ketchum, Richard M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Book of the Month Club Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1974
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
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Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
We purchase and sell only collectible first editions in a number of fields all focused on Americana. We are primarily mail order sellers; however, we are open by appointment and welcome visits from customers.
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