Where the Battle Was Fought: A Novel
by Craddock, Charles Egbert
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1884. First edition [1884] in fair, heavily worn condition. Novel of the post Civil War period set in the American South. Brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and black, 423 pages. Covers heavily rubbed at the edges with chips to the corners and spine ends, hinges internally cracked, book begins with title page (anything prior to that removed), text block sound with no loosened pages, hospital stamp on front pastedown, pages lightly age-toned but clean with no other markings. Reading copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024294
- Title
- Where the Battle Was Fought: A Novel
- Author
- Craddock, Charles Egbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- James R. Osgood & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1884
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- VICTORIAN FICTION ADVENTURE NOVEL MILITARY TENNESSEE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...