The Soldier's Story of His Captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle and Other Rebel Prisons
by Goss, Warren Lee
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About This Item
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867. Small Octavo. 273pp. with an appendix containing the names of the Union soldiers who died at Andersonville, Illustrated by Thomas Nast. [Nevins p. 192; Much useful data on daily life and officials at such prisons as Charleston and Florence; very bitter against Confederates]. bound inmaroon cloth over beveled boards, pictorial gilt spine, brown endpapers. Light wear to corners and spine ends. A very good copy.
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- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019114
- Title
- The Soldier's Story of His Captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle and Other Rebel Prisons
- Author
- Goss, Warren Lee
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Lee and Shepard
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1867
- Keywords
- Andersonville Prison Civil War Union Soldiers
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil War; Military History;
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Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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Scottsdale, Arizona
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
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