Benjamin Franklin An Autobiographical Portrait by Tamarin, Alfred (Editor) - 1969

New York: MacMillan, 1969. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Stated First Printing in unclipped original dust jacket. Clean navy blue cloth boars with silver lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated throughout the book in black and white. 276 pages with Index. Clean jacket is not price clipped, unchipped, has 3/4" closed tear at front spine gutter; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Alfred Tamarin's collection of Franklin's writings--excerpts from his letters, jourals and pamphlets interspersed with sections of the well-known "Autobiography"--reveals theprivate Franklin and fills in the events of the thirty-three years between the Autobiography's end and its author's death. .