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Bullet and Shell: A Soldier's Romance
by Williams, George F
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
Item Price
£161.86£113.30
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About This Item
New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert. Very Good. N.D.. Hardcover. Bright dark blue cloth over beveled edge board with distinctive gilt and silver design and lettering on spine and cover. [10], 11-454 pp. Illustrated throughout with full-page and in-text woodcuts "from Sketches among the actual scenes," by Edwin Forbes. Early edition, c 1895 dated by review laid-in, with reference to Forbes (1839-1895) death "last December" with one leaf of quotations and facsimile of letters from General Sherman and Major-Gen. George B. McClellan. Both Williams and Forbes worked as correspondents during the Civil war. Originally published in 1882, this is an early edition of the retelling of "life as a soldier saw it" including "...camp, march, picket, battlefield and bivouac, prison and hospital were sketched in the midst of the scenes themselves." Better than Very Good with a few finger marks; the front hing is starting to wear, lightly worn ends and a small tear in the binding on the back board. Uncommon. ; 8vo ; fair .
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- Bookseller
- E Ridge fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8547
- Title
- Bullet and Shell: A Soldier's Romance
- Author
- Williams, George F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Fords, Howard, & Hulbert
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- N.D.
- Keywords
- Civil War, Soldiers Life
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Antiquarian & Collectible Books; History: Military & War;
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Facsimile
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- Laid-in
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