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THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT
by Edmund Morris
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good -/Very Good
- Seller
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Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
US: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979. Hardback. Very Good -/Very Good. Signed and inscribed by the author at title page. Black cloth over boards with gilt particulars to spine. Folding to top corner of pages 457 and 458; otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Text block has soiling to lower edge, scuff to fore edge, and light foxing to top edge. Endpages clean and unmarked. Boards have soiling to rear board, sunning to edges, and bumping to corners and ends of spine; small tear to cloth at fore edge of front board. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket is clean and bright with light to moderate creasing, rubbing and chipping to edges, corners and ends of spine. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.
Synopsis
Edmund Morris was born in Kenya and educated at the Prince of Wales School, Nairobi, and Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. He worked as an advertising copywriter in London before emigrating to the United States in 1968. His biography The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1980. In 1985 he was appointed Ronald Reagan's authorized biographer. He has written extensively on travel and the arts for such publications as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's , and The Washington Pos t. The second volume of his Roosevelt biography, Theodore Rex , is currently under way, and will be followed by a third. Edmund Morris lives in New York and Washington, D.C., with his wife and fellow biographer, Sylvia Jukes Morris. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64962
- Title
- THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT
- Author
- Edmund Morris
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- American History
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Atlanta Vintage Books
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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