Robert h rhodes (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, featured throughout Ken Burns' PBS documentary The Civil War. Rhodes enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a twenty-three-year-old colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted in The Civil War will recognize his accounts of those campaigns, which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. Most of all, Rhodes's words reveal the motivation of a common Yankee foot soldier, an otherwise ordinary young man who endured the rigors of combat and exhausting marches, short rations, fear, and homesickness for a salary of $13 a month and the satisfaction of giving all for the union.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Zustand: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Complete 4-volume set. 16mo. Quarter vellum with gilt spine lettering and paper (dark brown, light brown, charcoal, blue) over bevelled boards with gilt lettering. xvi, 24pp; vi, 54pp; xiv, 38pp; vii, 47pp. Top edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispieces, sewn-in satin page markers. Each near fine. Lacks dust jackets. Superb full set of this firm's distinctive "Western Classics" quartet, tight and bright. Elder formed this firm in 1903 and took in young buck and future fine press printer John Henry Nash (1871-1947), who designed the typography. Thomas Rutherford Bacon introduces Stevenson's "The Sea Fogs," a poetic description of a trip to northern California, this its first separate publication. Geraldine Bonner introduces Rhodes' "The Case of Summerfield," a sci-fi mystery first published in 1871. William Dallam Armes introduces Harte's "Tennessee's Partner," a California Gold Rush mining town yarn first published in 1869. W.C. Morrow introduces Harte's "A Son of the Gods," a story set in San Francisco first published in 1888, and also "A Horseman in the Sky," the famed Civil War tale first published in 1889. Each bears a striking photogravure frontispiece after a painting. Colophon at rear of each volume notes limitation of 1,000 copies, printed on handmade paper, with Nash as typographer and New York's Tomoye Press as printer.…