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LIFE IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY, BEING THE OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF AN ALIEN IN THE SOUTH DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
by WATSON, WILLIAM
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Minor Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hakll, 1887. Spine decoratedd and lettered in gilt and silver. Free endpapers are browned equally front and back, likely from binding process. Quite crisp and clean throughout. The memoirs and commentary of a Scottish soldier who served in the Confederate Army until1863, later a blockade-runner. See Nevils 1:175. 456pp. . First British Edition. Green Cloth. Minor Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0154468
- Title
- LIFE IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY, BEING THE OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF AN ALIEN IN THE SOUTH DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
- Author
- WATSON, WILLIAM
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Minor Corner and Edge Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First British Edition
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hakll
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1887
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Military History, American Civil Was, Confederate Army
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Gilt
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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....
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