The Journals of Josiah Gorgas, 1857-1878
by Gorgas, Josiah; Wiggins, Sarah Woolfolk [editor]
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0817307702
- ISBN 13
- 9780817307707
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
Tuscaloosa: University Alabama Press, 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's dust-jacket. 305 pages. Includes Biographical Directory; Bibliography; and Index. Edited by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins. Foreword by Frank E. Vandiver. History Book Club issue. Eighteen journals from the antebellum period to reconstruction by the highly regarded Chief of Confederate Ordnance. Gorgas journals are more comprehensive than Mary Boykin Chesnut's Diaries and provide a far greater window into Southern economic, political and filial life. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .
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- Seller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 020175
- Title
- The Journals of Josiah Gorgas, 1857-1878
- Author
- Gorgas, Josiah; Wiggins, Sarah Woolfolk [editor]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0817307702
- ISBN 13
- 9780817307707
- Publisher
- University Alabama Press
- Place of Publication
- Tuscaloosa
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction Journals
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography and Biography;
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