LETTERS FROM EUROPE
by Forney, John W[ien]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Durham, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, [1867]. Small 8vo. 406 pages, plus frontispiece portrait. [12] pages publisher's ads. Original purple cloth, lettered in gilt, with single gilt rule on spine and triple blind rules on covers; brown coated endpapers. [19 cm.] Spine faded to tan; some fading and spotting to covers. Faint name on front free endpaper ("George R. Watkins, '67," a naval paymaster from Baltimore.) Foxing to frontispiece and title; offsetting to title; moderate marginal damping to lower corners of first few leaves. Text is generally clean with only a few minor spots or traces of foxing. Good plus. FIRST EDITION. Letters from Forney's 1867 travels in England and on the Continent. John Wien Forney (1817-1881), a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was an influential newspaper editor, Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives (1851-1856, 1860-1861) and Secretary of the United States Senate (1861-1868).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000556
- Title
- LETTERS FROM EUROPE
- Author
- Forney, John W[ien]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- T.B. Peterson
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- [1867]
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- TRAVEL & EXPLORATION;
Terms of Sale
Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2008
Durham, North Carolina
About Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC
An online shop focusing on Americana, particularly books pertaining to the South, and offering rare, scholarly, and antique books on a variety of other subjects. Proprietor David J. Eilenberger worked for over five years at respected firms in the A.B.A.A. before establishing the company in 2010. In addition to books, we are interested in acquiring broadsides, ephemera, 19th-century photographs, and manuscripts. Member Independent Online Booksellers Association since 2017.
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