Autobiography and Personal Recollections Of John B Gough, With Twenty Six Years' Experience As a Public Speaker

Springfield, MA: Bill, Nichols & Co., 1869. First Edition; Original flat-brown end papers; Textblock lightly aged with occasional foxing, but clean and tight; Original brown cloth binding is lightly bowed and shelf worn; 552p.. First Edition. Brown Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by George Cruikshank and Others. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Springfield, Mass: Bill, Nichols & Co, 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. c.1870. Pebbled brown cloth, gilt titles. 8vo. 552pp. Frontis portrait with tissue guard. Very Good (minus). Moderate rubbing / wear at spine-ends and corners, light rubbing to boards, mild soil to endpapers, signature of S. A. Douglass (a relation of Frederick Douglass?) on title page.

Springfield, MA, USA: Bill, Nichols & Co., 1870 Moderate cover wear, cloth chips at top and bottom of spine. New end sheets. Binding strong. Content generally clean, but with scattered light smudges/stains in margins. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Springfield: Bill, Nichols & Company, 1869. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo. xvii, 552pp, ads, illustrated, engraved frontis portrait, three-quarter leather with marbled edges, pastedowns, and end papers, extremities worn, spine leather split 5-inches at bottom hinge of front cover, leather scuffed. Temperance at its finest from this English immigrant..

Springfield: Bill, Nichols & Co.. 1870. First Edition. G- with rubbing to cloth and a gouge at bottom corner of rear cover, foxing to frontispiece, title page and several other pages, front endpapers have an abraded spot, o/w contents are generally clean, binding solid. ; 8vo, publisher's brown pebbled cloth with facsimile gilt signature on cover,… Read more about this item

Springfield, Mass: Bill, Nichols and Company, 1869. By the age of 25, Gough was unemployed, homeless, and a confirmed drunkard. In 1842 he attended a temperance meeting in Worcester, Massachusetts where he took a pledge to totally abstain from liquor. He began to tell his story to eager audiences and soon embarked on a career of lecturing against the evils… Read more about this item

Springfield: Bill, Nichols, 1869. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo.. (xvii) 552 pages, b/w frontis portrait/tissue guard, full-page b/w illustrations; brown textured cloth. Good condition, titles faded, spine ends cover worn, front inner hinge badly broken, name/1870 date front endpaper, heavy foxing frontis, shaken; contents very good; no dust jacket. Author spoke widely on temperance in U.S., Scotland,… Read more about this item

HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

Philadelphia, PA: Longmans, Green and Co. , 1871. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. George Cruikshank and others. Gilt lettering on brown ruled-edge covers in hand-made brown paper wrappers - which have kept this volume in very good condition! 8vo, 552 pages. Ex- library copy - This is Volume No. 75 of the West Bath… Read more about this item

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Bill, Nichols & Co.. Leather boards. Brown pebble with smooth tan corner tips and spine. Navy title boxes on spine with gold lettering. Light wear at spine ends and corner tips. Decorative end papers and outer page edges. Binding is tight and square. Pages are clean, although some foxing here and there. Frontispiece of the author with a fascimile signature… Read more about this item