The Beautiful Life of Frances E. Willard: A Memorial Volume
by GORDON, Anna E
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publishing Association, 1898. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter blind-embossed brown calf with gilt lettering and grey cloth. 416pp. Frontispiece, full-page illustrations, marbled page edges. Very good. Faint binding wear only, else tight and internally near fine; 1898 nonauthorial gift inscription on front pastedown. A lovely first edition of this biography and tribute to the just-deceased founder of the Woman's Temperance Christian Union, reformer and suffragette. A "Who's Who" of educators and reformers contribute brief tributes, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary A. Livermore, Susan B. Anthony, Dwight L. Moody, Booker T. Washington, Theodore L. Cuyler, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Maud Ballington Booth and others.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45425
- Title
- The Beautiful Life of Frances E. Willard: A Memorial Volume
- Author
- GORDON, Anna E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Woman's Temperance Publishing Association
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1898
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Biography;
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
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- First Edition
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- 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...
- Cloth
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