Modern Agitators: Or Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers
by BARTLETT, David W
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856. Hardcover. Fair. iv, [3], 7-396, [4] p. 20 cm. B&w frontispiece portrait and 5 other engraved portrait plates. Brown cloth with blank impressing. Tears and chips in spine ends, small holes in front hinge, white marks on boards, corners bumped. Front free endpaper torn out. Foxing, esp. to first and last pages and plates. Pages 33 to 40 detached. Small tears in edges of 357-9.
Includes bios of Henry Ward Beecher, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, William H. Seward, and Horace Greeley, among others.
Includes bios of Henry Ward Beecher, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, William H. Seward, and Horace Greeley, among others.
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- Bookseller
- Attic Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 147573
- Title
- Modern Agitators: Or Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers
- Author
- BARTLETT, David W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Miller, Orton & Mulligan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1856
- Keywords
- Henry Ward Beecher, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, William H. Seward, Horace Greely, Biography, Americana
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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