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American Cavalcade: A Memoir on the Life and Family of De Witt Clinton Poole.
by POOLE, John Hudson
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Pasadena: Privately Printed at the Ward Ritchie Press, 1939. First edition, limited, one of 150 copies, this inscribed, signed, & dated by the author at the first blank page. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), xiv, 350, & [2] pages, indexed. With a frontis portrait, 3 double-page maps and 21 other plates (2 in color). Original blue cloth lettered & decorated in gilt.
Spine & margins sunned, hint of fraying at the top of the spine, front hinge started (still secure), lightly foxed & toned (mostly at early & lated leaves), small stain affecting rear pastedown & blanks, otherwise Very Good.
An insightful biography written by the son of DeWitt Clinton Poole. Poole served in the Civil War with the Wisconsin Volunteers & afterward with the Freedman's Bureau in Atlanta, Georgia. Additionally, he was an Indian agent at the Whetsone Agency in the Dakota Territory.
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- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000058
- Title
- American Cavalcade: A Memoir on the Life and Family of De Witt Clinton Poole.
- Author
- POOLE, John Hudson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Privately Printed at the Ward Ritchie Press
- Place of Publication
- Pasadena
- Date Published
- 1939
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Americana, Sioux War, Andrew Jackson, Genealogy, Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American; Native American; Civil War;
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- Hinge
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- Foxed
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- Sunned
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Inscribed
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