Search Results: i speak for thaddeus stevens by singmaster elsie

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. 446 pp. Original tan cloth covers. DJ moderately soiled and rubbed w/ mild wear to edges. Light chipping to corners and spine ends. Spine a bit sunned. Contents nice.. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good. 1947. Hardcover. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1947). Cloth, 8vo, nice inscription from Singmaster to a friend,"... Gettysburg, 1952." Pages becoming a bit "bleached", but a nice copy in a chipped but good DJ. .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fair. Author signed and inscribed on the title page. Brown lettering on tan covers in a pictorial dust jacket. . 8vo, 446pp. Gift inscription on the first free end paper. Dust jacket edge & corners torn.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. 8vo sized cloth bound hardcover with color illustrated dust jacket; 446 bright pages. This is a fictionalized biography / historical fiction of Pennsylvania statesman Thaddeus Stevens. Elsie Singmaster (1879-1958) was known for her juvenile historical fiction and often chose the Civil War as her historical background. Singmaster was awarded a Newbury Honor for her 1934 juvenile historical fiction novel Swords of Steel. Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868) was a radical Republican of the Civil War/Reconstruction era. Stevens, who served as congressman from Pennsylvania, was a fierce advocate for African American rights, advocating full equality for the former slaves. Even requesting that he be buried in a black cemetery "to illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life - Equality of Man before his Creator." Stevens also served on the committee which drafted the Articles of Impeachment against President Andrew Johnson (Johnson was… Read More