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Bloody Buoy, Thrown out As a Warning to the Political Pilots of all Nations; Or, a Faithful Relation of a Multitude of Acts of Horrid Barbarity, Such As the Eye Never Witnessed....
by Cobbett, William (Pseudonym Peter Porcupine)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Henry Witmer. Good with no dust jacket. 1823. Second Edition. Hardcover. Heavy wear on marbled paper boards with leather on spine. If there was corner leather it was rubbed away along with the spine ends. Rubbing on edges with hand-written spine title barely legible. Heavy foxing, old dampstains, and dog-earring of endpapers and text pages. Name of Joseph Worrel, dated 1837, on first free endpaper. First edition was published in 1796, with this edition by a publisher in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania scarce. William Cobbett was a British pamphleteer who emigrated to America in the 1790s and criticized its version of democracy. He had spent time in France in 1792 and here relates the atrocities of the French Revolution as a warning to the Americans on nationalist sovereignty. For legal reasons he moved back to England in 1800 where he continued publishing controversial political arguments, resulting in imprisonment for libel. ; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; 116 pp .
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- Bookseller
- Back of Beyond Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009121
- Title
- Bloody Buoy, Thrown out As a Warning to the Political Pilots of all Nations; Or, a Faithful Relation of a Multitude of Acts of Horrid Barbarity, Such As the Eye Never Witnessed....
- Author
- Cobbett, William (Pseudonym Peter Porcupine)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- Henry Witmer
- Date Published
- 1823
- Keywords
- British Propaganda, Pamphleteer
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About the Seller
Back of Beyond Books
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Moab, Utah
About Back of Beyond Books
Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
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- Marbled Paper
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- Edges
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- Jacket
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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