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A Life of Francis Parkman
by Charles Haight Farnham
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No DJ
- Seller
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Limited (1028/1200) 'Champlain Edition'; association copy. Near Fine HC, no DJ. Green calico-grain cloth over boards with paper spine panel printed with red and black titles; top edge gilt; untrimmed fore edges; 2 color title page; laid paper; tissue-guarded frontispiece and interior plates. Bright, clean covers and spine; spine cloth slightly age darkened; paper label on spine age darkened but legible - new additional spine label tipped in at rear end papers; slightly bumped at cover top fore corners; tightly bound; bookplate on front pastedown 'To | Ellsworth Bunker | with affecionate regards | from the American Red Cross Staff | December 31, 1956'; bright, clean interior; many leaves unopened at fore edges - never been read. From the collection of Ellsworth Bunker (U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, Italy, India, Nepal, South Vietnam, Organization of American States; president of the American Red Cross; and twice recipient of U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom). 8vo, 394 pp; index, bibliography of Parkman works; illustrated.
Details
- Bookseller
- Madden Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16669
- Title
- A Life of Francis Parkman
- Author
- Charles Haight Farnham
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boston: Little, Brown and Co.
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- PARKMAN, MANIFEST DESTINY, EXPLORATION, HISTORIANS, HISTORIOGRAPHY, AMERICANA
Terms of Sale
Madden Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Madden Books
Biblio member since 2011
Brattleboro, Vermont
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About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
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- Spine Label
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- Fine
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- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Edges
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- Spine
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- Bookplate
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- Cloth
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- New
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- Association Copy
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