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Philadelphia / New York.: J B Lippincott Company / New York HIstorical Society., 1956. First edition. Stated First.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Jacket has edge wear, chips.. 1 Black cloth over boards. Blue spine title boxes. Gilt titles. 375 p. 22 cm. B&W plate section. Index. Autobiography / U.S. History: "The long-withheld story of a NInteenth Century aristocrat in Twentieth-Century politics" on front jacket flap. Previously a journal-manuscript, enormously long, the author's memoirs revealed him to be of humor, keen in politics, scholarly, and a good writer. Included are candid profiles of his contemporaries: Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, and Woodrow Wilson. Son of a Civil War general, George B McClellan Jr became mayor of New York City under the aegis of the corrupt Tammany Hall political machine.

J.B. Lippincott Company. DJ in archival cover chips. Stated first edition. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1956.

J.B. Lippincott Philadelphia 1956. First edition 375pp illust., ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) excellent in very good d/w (edgewear, sunned spine)

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1956. Hardcover. Edited from the original manuscript in the possession of The New York Historical Society by Harold C. Syrett. 8vo. Black cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 375pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. First edition.