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Life of David Bell Birney, Major-General, United States Volunteers
by Davis, Oliver Wilson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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High Point, North Carolina, United States
Item Price
CA$96.64CA$72.48
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About This Item
Philadelphia / New York: King & Baird / Sheldon & Co, 1867. Hardcover. Fair with no dust jacket. Front board detached but present. Rear board secure. Binding and hinges sound. Full embossed and gilt decorated leather over boards is worn epecially at edges and spine. Previous owner's name on title page. Pages clean, tanned, occasionally foxed, with gilt on edges all around. ; David Bell Birney (1825-1864) was a businessman, lawyer, and a Union general in the American Civil War who died while in service, possibly of typhoid fever. 10.0" tall; 418 pages.
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- Bookseller
- Cat's Cradle Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3440075
- Title
- Life of David Bell Birney, Major-General, United States Volunteers
- Author
- Davis, Oliver Wilson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- King & Baird / Sheldon & Co
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia / New York
- Date Published
- 1867
- Keywords
- HISTORY, UNITED STATES, AMERICA, CIVIL WAR, MILITARY, BIOGRAPHY
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Americana;
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About the Seller
Cat's Cradle Books
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High Point, North Carolina
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
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