Witness to an Era: the Life and Photographs of Alexander Gardner: the Civil War, Lincoln, and the West
by Katz, D. Mark
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking Penguin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in dustjacket. Folio. Book has black and brown quarter cloth boards with bronze gilt lettering on the cover and spine. Two lightly bumped corners and a previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown. Jacket has some rubbing at the creases and spine and moderate shelf wear. Not price-clipped. In protective mylar. 305 pp. Including index. Heavy--may require additional postage if shipped other than domestic media mail. .
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- KULTURAs books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16536
- Title
- Witness to an Era: the Life and Photographs of Alexander Gardner: the Civil War, Lincoln, and the West
- Author
- Katz, D. Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Viking Penguin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Civil War History. Civil War Photography. Alexander Gardner. , Photography-american West.
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Folio
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- Rubbing
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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