PENNSLYVANIA at CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA, CEREMONIES at the DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENTS erected by the Commonwealth of [PA]
by Skinner, George W, Captain (editor and compiler] 07e
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- FAIR book, even so, FINE inside, including all plates.
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
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About This Item
np: Pennslyvania. FAIR book, even so, FINE inside, including all plates.. (1900). Hardcover. FAIR book. AEG. Tight. FINE inside. "Captain George W. Skinner" gilt stamped on red leather front cover label. 10"x6",500pp. . Half red leather. Identically marbled boards, pastedowns & eps. Covers badly scuffed and worn. Torn spine top. FINE contents. All three gilt edges bright & shiny. No loose pages. No aging, foxing. A later owner's name/address sticker twice on second blank, no other marginalia. Skinner, the editor, had been w the 79th Infantry Regiment. He'd joined at 16, left as a Captain. He became active in Pennslyvania politics and died in 1909. This is likely specially bound by the publisher for Skinner. Or Skinner may have had it bound. .
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- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003726
- Title
- PENNSLYVANIA at CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA, CEREMONIES at the DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENTS erected by the Commonwealth of [PA]
- Author
- Skinner, George W, Captain (editor and compiler] 07e
- Illustrator
- Illus w many photos
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - FAIR book, even so, FINE inside, including all plates.
- Publisher
- Pennslyvania
- Place of Publication
- np
- Date Published
- (1900)
- Keywords
- FAIR book. AEG. Tight. FINE inside. "Captain George W. Skinner" gilt, stamped on red leather front cover label. 10"x6",500pp., skinner, chickamauga, chattanooga, monuments, signed, autograph
- Bookseller catalogs
- civil war;
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
- 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...
- 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....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Marbled boards
- ...