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The Last Capital : Danville, Virginia, and the Final Days of the Confederacy (SIGNED)
by Brubaker, John H
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0965163504
- ISBN 13
- 9780965163507
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Danville, VA: Womack Press, 1979. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 74 pages. Hardcover with a grey dust jacket. Moderate wear to the jacket. The jacket has a small tear at the top edge of the front cover. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by the author on the front flyleaf. Laid in loosely is a 1959 Danville pamphlet entitled "Last Capitol of the Confederacy." A sound copy with clean text. Contains a number of illustrations and a full-page map of Danville numbered with historic sites.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 048575
- Title
- The Last Capital : Danville, Virginia, and the Final Days of the Confederacy (SIGNED)
- Author
- Brubaker, John H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0965163504
- ISBN 13
- 9780965163507
- Publisher
- Womack Press
- Place of Publication
- Danville, VA
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- 1979; John H. Brubaker III: Danville, Virginia; Capital; Confederacy; Confederate; History; Civil War; The South; Southern; Signed; Autographed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed Books & Association Copies; Civil War; Virginia;
- X weight
- 1.5 lb
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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