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Harriet Tubman: Secret Agent ~ How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War
by Allen, Thomas B
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0792278895
- ISBN 13
- 9780792278894
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. thus.* Date of Publication: 2006* Publisher: National Geographic.* Binding and cover condition: Dark grey brown cloth, gilt title to spine & to face with small coloured vignette to front. The boards are distressed artificially to represent age to all edges. No actual bumps or rubs or shelf wear. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing Harriet holding a gun and dressed in coat and striped skirt against a small landscape. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of $16.95. Simulated age to jacket. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w pictures, sketches and maps throughout.* Pages: 168 pp. text. xxiv pp. appendices, index and notes at rear.* Description: It?s 1863, Harriet Tubman is facing one of the biggest ? and most dangerous ? challenges of her life. She has survived her master?s lash, escaped from slavery. And risked her life countless times to lead runaway slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad. Now she has a new role ? that of Union spy! You are about to enter the undercover world of African-American spies ? enslaved and free ? risking everything in the name of freedom.* A FINE copy with minimal wear.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4403
- Title
- Harriet Tubman: Secret Agent ~ How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War
- Author
- Allen, Thomas B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn. Thus,
- ISBN 10
- 0792278895
- ISBN 13
- 9780792278894
- Publisher
- National Geographic Books
- Place of Publication
- London UK 192
- Date Published
- 2006-10-31
- Size
- 15.2 x 1.9 x 18.1 cm
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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