JAMES S. WADSWORTH OF GENESEO Brevet Major General of United States Volunteers
by Pearson, Henry Greenleaf fx
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- NEAR FINE book. 1st UK ed. 10"x7", (xiv),321,(f/o map)pp.
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: John Murray. NEAR FINE book. 1st UK ed. 10"x7", (xiv),321,(f/o map)pp.. 1913. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. NEAR FINE book, no DJ. TEG. 1st UK ed. Text block FINE: text block MINT BUT: deckled fore edge has a spots of age browning. . Spotless contents, even the pastedowns as white as new. Ilustrated with several plates, some with tissue guards, and a few in text illustrations. FINE fold out familty tree at page 293. FINE fold out map at book's end. Gilt top edge seems as bright as new. Fore & bottom edges deckled. Bottom edge spotless, fore almost as good. Lastly, book stays closed when stood on its spine. Flaws confined to covers. (1) Neat bkplt inside cover. (2) Blue cloth with lightly bumped tips & scuffed spine ends. Geneseo is just south of Rochester, NY. Laid in a long (about 50 column inches) news artical, on Wadsworth & his family, from the Rochester newspaper "THE UNION AND ADVERTISER". It is dated June 1, 1887. Somebody kept this artical for decades before putting it in the book. .
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- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001204
- Title
- JAMES S. WADSWORTH OF GENESEO Brevet Major General of United States Volunteers
- Author
- Pearson, Henry Greenleaf fx
- Illustrator
- plates, maps, in text illus.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - NEAR FINE book. 1st UK ed. 10"x7", (xiv),321,(f/o map)pp.
- Edition
- 1st UK Edition
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1913
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- NEAR FINE book, no DJ. TEG. 1st UK ed. Text block FINE: text block, MINT BUT: deckled fore edge has a spots of age browning.
- Bookseller catalogs
- civil war;
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Quiet Friends
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About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
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