The American Debater: Being a Plain Exposition of the Principles and Practice of Public Debate...
by McELLIGOTT, James N
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Ivison & Phinney, 1856. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Original brown blind-embossed cloth. viii, 323pp. Frontispiece. Good plus. Binding edgeworn, with rear outer hinged cracked but still strong; lacks rear buff-colored flyleaf. Tight, decent third edition of this primer on debating. The same O.A. Boyd who pencils his ownership signature on an inner flyleaf pencils "O.A. Boyd in old age" beneath the steel-engraved full-length frontispiece portraitr of Daniel Webster.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33776
- Title
- The American Debater: Being a Plain Exposition of the Principles and Practice of Public Debate...
- Author
- McELLIGOTT, James N
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Ivison & Phinney
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1856
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Americana;
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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...