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Hardtack and Coffee or The Unwritten Story of Army Life Including Chapters on Enlisting, Life in Tents and Log Huts...
by Billings, John D
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Hartland, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Boston: George M. Smith & Co.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1887. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Original brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front panel, illustration of two soldiers near fire front panel and another lower spine. Worn on points, loss to cloth and fraying head of spine. Front gutter paper repaired else corners straight and tight, now in protective glassine cover. "...Jonahs and Beats, Offences and Punishments, Raw Recruits, Foraging, Corps and Corps Badges, The Wagon Trains, The Army Mule, The Engineer Corps, The Signal Corps, etc." This important classic Civil War volume describes life and experiences of the common Union soldier. Written by a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Light Artillery Battery and illustrated throughout with line drawings and six color plates, all present. ; MCN33594; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 406 pp .
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- Bookseller
- McCormick Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40739
- Title
- Hardtack and Coffee or The Unwritten Story of Army Life Including Chapters on Enlisting, Life in Tents and Log Huts...
- Author
- Billings, John D
- Illustrator
- Charles W. Reed
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- George M. Smith & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1887
- Keywords
- U.S. Military History Civil War Americana
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
McCormick Books
Biblio member since 2004
Hartland, Michigan
About McCormick Books
Mail order book store specializing in Genealogy, History and Michigan History.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
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