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The Galvanized Yankees
by BROWN, D. Alexander
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. An ex-library copy of D. Alexander Brown's description of the so-called Galvanized Yankees. These former Confederate Soldiers were recruited from Union prison camps in the North and sent to fight Indians in the American West. The men were promised that they would not be sent to the South to fight their former fellow Confederates. With a section of black & white photos and drawings and a two-page map to rear of volume, printed on buff leaves. --- Rebound for the library in durable blue buckram with spine titling in white. Textblock from the first edition of this work. --- Evidence of previous ownership by the Denver Public Library consists of pocket, stickers, serial numbers and rubberstampings (including de-accession statement). Also with a prior owner's infrequent notations in red ink. Original dust jacket flap has been cut out and pasted to front endpaper.; Ex-Library; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (6), 243, (4) pages .
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- Seller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 86628
- Title
- The Galvanized Yankees
- Author
- BROWN, D. Alexander
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication
- Urbana
- Date Published
- 1963
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>American History & Politics; >>Civil War (U.S.);
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- Octavo
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- Jacket
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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....
- 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...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
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