Message from the President of the U.S., transmitting a Letter from the Secretary of War Accompanied with Sundry Documents
by U.S. War Department
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- fair
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Albany, NY: Websters and Skinners, 1814. fair. 18 cm, 178 total, 2 vols. bound in 1, 3/4 leather binding, front flyleaf cut away, title page & p.1 missing & replaced with photocopies. Boards quite worn, text foxed, small piece missing in bottom margin of p.3, rebound with newer spine (but original boards remain), ink notation onrear flyleaf. Short title written on spine: On the failure of the U.S. arms on the northern frontier. Full subtitle: In obedience to a resolution of the 31st of December last, requesting such information as may tend to explain the causes of the failure of the arms of the United States, on the northern frontier.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Message from the President of the U.S., transmitting a Letter from the Secretary of War Accompanied with Sundry Documents
- Author
- U.S. War Department
- Book Condition
- Used - fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Websters and Skinners
- Place of Publication
- Albany, NY
- Date Published
- 1814
- Keywords
- Dearborn, Canada, Fort George, Wm Henry Harrison, Militia, U.S. Army, Detroit, Wilkinson, Cass
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- 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...
- 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....
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....