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Men of Our Times; Or Leading Patriots of the Day
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, front hinge cracked, top corner of rear boards creased.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
Hartford, CT: Hartford Publishing Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, front hinge cracked, top . corner of rear boards creased.. 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Second state of first edition with Douglass spelled correctly on title page. Green cloth titled in gilt. Sprinkled edges. Title continued: Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of Statesmen, Generals, and Orators, Including Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher. Eighteen steel engraved portraits of the subjects. xiv, 576pp. BAL 19449. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57550
- Title
- Men of Our Times; Or Leading Patriots of the Day
- Author
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, front hinge cracked, top corner of rear boards creased.
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hartford Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, CT
- Date Published
- 1868
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography and Memoir;
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Old Saratoga Books
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Selkirk, New York
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About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- First Edition
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- Hinge
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- Gilt
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- Cracked
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- Cloth
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- BAL
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- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- Edges
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