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Hardtack and Coffee or The unwritten Story of Army Life: Including Chapters on Enlisting, Life in tents and Log Huts, Jonahs and Beats, Offences and Punishments, Raw Recruits, Foraging, corps and Corps badges, the Wagon Trains, the Army Mule, Etc.
by Billings, John D
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0809442086
- ISBN 13
- 9780809442089
- Seller
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Time Life Books, 1987. Facsimile reprint of the 1887 First Eddition; Decorative end pages, red cloth bookmarker sewn into headband, clean and tight textblock. All edges gilt. Full-bonded leather binding, lightly shelf worn; 408pp.. Genuine Bonded Leather. Very Good+. Illus. by Six Elegant Color Plates; Over Two Hundred Original Sketches By Charles w. Reed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SB11599
- Title
- Hardtack and Coffee or The unwritten Story of Army Life: Including Chapters on Enlisting, Life in tents and Log Huts, Jonahs and Beats, Offences and Punishments, Raw Recruits, Foraging, corps and Corps badges, the Wagon Trains, the Army Mule, Etc.
- Author
- Billings, John D
- Illustrator
- Six Elegant Color Plates; Over Two Hundred Original Sketches By Charles w. Reed
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0809442086
- ISBN 13
- 9780809442089
- Publisher
- Time Life Books
- Place of Publication
- Alexandria, Va
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- American Civil War, Civil War Personal Narratives, American Military History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil War;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Clausen Books, RMABA
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About the Seller
Clausen Books, RMABA
Biblio member since 2006
Colorado Springs, Colorado
About Clausen Books, RMABA
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- 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...
- Headband
- A strip of colored material attached to the text block at the top of the spine of a hard cover book. The same treatment applied...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
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