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The Smoke at Dawn: A Novel of the Civil War
by Jeff Shaara
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0345527410
- ISBN 13
- 9780345527417
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Ballantine Books, 2014. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Purchased New. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Jeff Shaara on the title page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and clean unmarred boards. Light crease to spine head mild bump to top back corner. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00) with light wear to corners and faint wrinkle to spine head edge (see photos), else bright and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. Civil War: 1861-1865, Western Theater series Book 3.
Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows so well, with the latest novel in the series that started with A Blaze of Glory and A Chain of Thunder. In The Smoke at Dawn, the last great push of the Army of the Cumberland sets the stage for a decisive confrontation at Chattanooga that could determine the outcome of the war.
Synopsis
Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of A Chain of Thunder, A Blaze of Glory, The Final Storm, No Less Than Victory, The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure —two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, The Killer Angels . Shaara was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives in Gettysburg.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3183
- Title
- The Smoke at Dawn: A Novel of the Civil War
- Author
- Jeff Shaara
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0345527410
- ISBN 13
- 9780345527417
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- western theatre, William Sherman, Chattanooga, civil war
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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