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NO TEARS FOR THE GENERAL. THE LIFE OF ALFRED SULLY, 1821-1879
by SULLY, LANGDON
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- Hardcover
- first
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Greencastle, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Palo Alto: American West Publishing Company, [1974]., 1974. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Cloth, titles stamped in gold gilt on the spine, tan front and rear endpapers, 255 [1] pp., foreword, preface, illustrated, plates, portraits, maps, notes, bibliography, credits, index. Foreword by Ray Allen Billington. Authored by the grandson of Sully, this is the first and only biography of General Alfred Sully who saw service in California during its gold rush period, Minnesota frontier in the 1850s, of the peninsula campaign of the Civil War, and the Sioux uprising of the 1860s in the Dakotas. Fine, bright copy in price-clipped dust jacket with minor wear to the front flap fold.
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- Bookseller
- BUCKINGHAM BOOKS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49565
- Title
- NO TEARS FOR THE GENERAL. THE LIFE OF ALFRED SULLY, 1821-1879
- Author
- SULLY, LANGDON
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- American West Publishing Company, [1974].
- Place of Publication
- Palo Alto
- Date Published
- 1974
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