Civil War on Western Waters
by PRATT, Fletcher
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1956. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth spine and tan marbled paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 255pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Jacket slightly edgeworn, with spine slightly age toned; nonauthorial gift inscription on front flyleaf. First edition, tight and nice. Thomas Wells calls this "An interesting and generally accurate account of operations on the Mississippi and its tributaries; and appendix lists characteristics of the warships." NEVINS I, 231.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33988
- Title
- Civil War on Western Waters
- Author
- PRATT, Fletcher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Civil War;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- First Edition
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- Marbled Paper
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- Tight
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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