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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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- 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;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
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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- BAL
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- First Edition
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.