R. E. Lee A Biography (Scarce in Original Publisher's Box)
by Freeman, Douglas Southall
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- g to vg
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. Later printing. Hardcover. g to vg. Small Quarto. xviii, 646 (1), 1 folding map; xi, 620 (1); xi, 559; viii, 594pp. Original bright red cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on covers and spines, housed in original blue cardboard box with gilt lettering and ruling on cover. According to Nevin's bibliography this biography is considered "a classic example of biographical form; exhaustively researched, vividly written, balanced, judicious and definite in its portrayal of the Confederacy's greatest soldier" (Nevin II, 57). Illustrated with sixty-five b/w photographs and documents, including frontispieces, one folding and numerous in-text maps. This is a later printing of the first Scribner's Sons edition of 1934-35. Box with light wear along edges and label lightly sunned. Bindings lightly rubbed and light fading of gilt lettering. Overall in good, interiors in very good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47533
- Title
- R. E. Lee A Biography (Scarce in Original Publisher's Box)
- Author
- Freeman, Douglas Southall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - g to vg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York London
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- General Lee biography, b/w photography, cartography, military maps, confederacy, civil war
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- Sunned
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- Cloth
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- G
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- Edges
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- VG
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- Quarto
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- Gilt
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