Merlin Sumner (4 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover without DJ. Blue cloth over boards with gold lettering on spine and front. Binding is good and tight. Corners are square. Morningside House. Title page dated 1987. Copyright page dated 1987. 408 pages. Pages are clean and crisp, free of any marks, stains, or tears. B&W pictorial section on heavier stock paper at rear of book. Overall a very nice copy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: If there is a photo beside this listing, it s a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: issued without. Octavo, 408 pages, index, with a 56 page section of portraits of Union officers. Comstock was a remarkable engineer who started with the Balloon Corps, then building fortifications, then as an aide to Gen. Grant, then on the military tribunal for Lincoln's assassination. Post-war he was involved with the geodetic survey. He established The Comstock Prize in Physics.

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Book Issued Without a Dust Jacket. Book has trivial shelf wear and sunning to extremities. Text block is bright and fresh but has a small mark of blue pen to top edge. Text is unmarked. Binding is tight and square. [viii], 9-408pp. + [Photographs]. Publisher's Blue Cloth, Stamped Gilt Detailing.