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The Guns at Gettysburg
by Downey, Fairfax
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Fair
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1958. Hardcover in price-clipped dust-jacket. 290pp., Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with drawings, diagrams and maps. Ex-library copy, with internal stamps on verso of endpaper and title, clipped dust-jacket at head and heel of spine, and top and bottom edges painted black. The story of Gettyburg as a victory of Union artillery, specifically credited to thr talents of the Union General Henry Jackson Hunt. No previous ownership marks. A sound, tight, reading copy in clipped jacket. Fair in a fair dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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Details
- Seller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 011367
- Title
- The Guns at Gettysburg
- Author
- Downey, Fairfax
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- David McKay Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- American Civil War, Military History, Artillery
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil War;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Great Expectations Rare Books
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
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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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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