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THE GREAT AMERICAN BATTLE: OR, THE CONTEST BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND POLITICAL ROMANISM
by CARROLL, ANNA ELLA
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton, and Mulligan, 1856. Front cover and spine vignettes, lettered in gilt. Spine sunned to tan. Gilt remains vivid. Frontispiece portreaits of Millard Fillmore and A. Donelson, with tissue-guard. The illustrations are foxed. Several other full-page portraits through text, including one of the author at start of Chapter 1. Text is generally quite clean, sparse spots of foxing only. 565pp. The author (1815-1894) was an American political activist, pamphleteer, lobbyist. The criticized slavery in her writings. She was an advisor to Lincoln's presidential cabinet during the Civil War. This book, her magnum opus, criticizes the political influence of the Roman Catholic Church under the papacy of Pius IX. . First Edition. Green Blind-stamped Cloth. Light Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015470
- Title
- THE GREAT AMERICAN BATTLE: OR, THE CONTEST BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND POLITICAL ROMANISM
- Author
- CARROLL, ANNA ELLA
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Cover Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Miller, Orton, and Mulligan
- Place of Publication
- New York and Auburn
- Date Published
- 1856
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- American Civil War, Catholicism
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
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Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Sunned
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
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- Octavo
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