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The Civil War in 50 Objects
by Harold Holzer
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 067001463X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670014637
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking, 2013. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/F. First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Harold Holzer on the title page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Faint creases to spine ends. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Illustrated with more than eighty photographs. The dust jacket is unclipped ($36.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 380 pages including index. 6¼ x 9¼" tall.
Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer sheds new light on the war by examining fifty objects from the New York Historical Society's acclaimed collection - with military and civilian items representing Union and Confederate sides. They illuminate the conflict from all perspectives—Union and Confederate, military and civilian, black and white, male and female—and give readers a deeply human sense of the war.
Harold Holzer was the script consultant for Steven Spielberg on "Lincoln" and has written fifty-two books and chapters and introductions in sixty more. He has won more than twenty-five awards and honors for his writing and research.
Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer sheds new light on the war by examining fifty objects from the New York Historical Society's acclaimed collection - with military and civilian items representing Union and Confederate sides. They illuminate the conflict from all perspectives—Union and Confederate, military and civilian, black and white, male and female—and give readers a deeply human sense of the war.
Harold Holzer was the script consultant for Steven Spielberg on "Lincoln" and has written fifty-two books and chapters and introductions in sixty more. He has won more than twenty-five awards and honors for his writing and research.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3906
- Title
- The Civil War in 50 Objects
- Author
- Harold Holzer
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 067001463X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670014637
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013
- Pages
- 380
- Size
- 6.25 x 9.25
- Keywords
- civil war, Abraham Lincoln, illustrated, American history, confederacy, slavery
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- First Editions; Signed Books;
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