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American Statesmen: Benjamin Franklin
by Morse, John T. Jr
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. Obligatory entry in the American Statesmen series, though the author admits there is a superior 'Life of Franklin'; this work concentrates on Franklin's political & diplomatic activities, not his scientific & technical work. First published in 1889, revised in 1917; this is a later printing, circa 1932. Rebound in half blue-green polished calf or crushed morocco over ribbed cloth boards, decorated paper endsheets, gilt top edge. The binding is unsigned, but it is quality work, likely to be by a Chicago binder in the early 1930s. Unique thus. Light wear, spine & upper rear board faded, gift note inside cover from Benjamin Franklin Lyons, Chicago utility executive, to his son of the same name, then four years of age. Text clean; [vii], blank, 428 pages + 2 pages publisher's ads; index. Later Printing. Half leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 5" by 7".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- n0719
- Title
- American Statesmen: Benjamin Franklin
- Author
- Morse, John T. Jr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1917
- Keywords
- Biography, Politics, American Revolution, France, England
- Size
- 5" by 7"
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
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