Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1973. BCE. Hardcover. A book club edition of Richard Ketchum's account of the struggles of the American Continental Army during the winter of 1776-1777. The British sent a huge force across the Atlantic and took New York City. The small band of soldiers, under General George Washington, retreated into New Jersey, where they spent the cold days of winter preparing their counterattack at the Battle of Princeton. With 66 black & white illustrations, 6 maps, end notes and index. --- In tan cloth-covered boards with cover and spine titling in gilt. Jacket with W. Trego color painting of Washington and his troops at Valley Forge to front cover. --- A Good-only copy, with rippled leaves due to exposure to dampness, a partial split at mid-book, prior owner's signature to front free endpaper; otherwise intact. Dust jacket with sunned spine, chafing to edges and some rubbing, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (10), 435 pages .

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Seller: Bluebird Books (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 86009
Title: The Winter Soldiers
Author: KETCHUM, Richard M
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good in Good+ dust jacket
Edition: BCE
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Place of Publication: Garden City, New York
Date Published: 1973
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Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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....
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...