A Dictionary of American Politics: Comprising Accounts of Political Parties, Measures and Men, and Explanations of the Constitution, Divisions and Practical Workings of the Government, Together with Political Phrases, Familiar Names of Persons and Places, Noteworthy Sayings, Etc., Etc.
by Brown (Everit) and Albert Strauss
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NY: Burt, 1888.. Original tan decorative wrappers, designed and lettered in black. 565pp. plus two leaves of ads at the rear. Later sticker of Henry J. Wehman, Song and Book Publisher, covering the imprint on the title page. Modest edge wear, ownership signature on upper front wrapper and fly leaf, a clean very good copy. Advert for Sohmer Pianos on the back cover. Pgs 557 - 565 print an Appendix dated 1888, laying out the various party platforms for that year, for the Democratic, Republican, and Prohibition Parties. WorldCat cites this edition, and another published in Troy the same year (556 pp., so without the Appendix), as well as a later Burt edition of 1892. Various bindings of this 1888 edition exist.
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- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop (CA)
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- A Dictionary of American Politics: Comprising Accounts of Political Parties, Measures and Men, and Explanations of the Constitution, Divisions and Practical Workings of the Government, Together with Political Phrases, Familiar Names of Persons and Places, Noteworthy Sayings, Etc., Etc.
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- Brown (Everit) and Albert Strauss
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- Used
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- NY: Burt, 1888.
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- Americana;
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