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A HISTORY OF THE KANSAS CRUSADE: Its Friends and Its Foes. Introduction by Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D.D.
by Kansas / Thayer, Eli
- Used
- good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Roosevelt, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889. First Edition. Original Cloth. Good. pp: xxii, 294 with index, (6) adverts. Bound in green cloth, gilt spine lettering; cover spotted, spine sunned. Prior owner's label on front pastedown. Inscribed on the free-endpaper: "With love and best wishes from the grandson of the author." Tipped at the top of the page is a clipped signature of Eli Thayer. 7.5" x 5" Covers the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, the New England Emigrant Aid Company (which Thayer organized), Horace Greeley's Plan of Freedom, Antislavery Disunionists, Abolitionists, Kansas and John Brown, &c. [Socolofsky & Dean, Kansas Bibliography, 716.].
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- Bookseller
- R & A Petrilla
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 038245
- Title
- A HISTORY OF THE KANSAS CRUSADE: Its Friends and Its Foes. Introduction by Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D.D.
- Author
- Kansas / Thayer, Eli
- Format/Binding
- Original Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- kansas; slavery; abolitionists; african-american
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ethnic Studies;
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R & A Petrilla
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About R & A Petrilla
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