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Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. 446 pp. Original tan cloth covers. DJ moderately soiled and rubbed w/ mild wear to edges. Light chipping to corners and spine ends. Spine a bit sunned. Contents nice.. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
I Speak for Thaddeus Stevens by SINGMASTER, Elsie - 1947
by SINGMASTER, Elsie
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I Speak for Thaddeus Stevens
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with brown lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 446pp. Very good/good plus. Jacket a bit edgeworn and showing several small edge chips, with old tape stains (no bleed through) on verso; 1949 nonauthorial gift inscription on front flyleaf. A tight and nice early (not first) printing of this biography of the ardent Abolitionist (1792-1868) considered the father of the 14th Amendment, a long-time Vermont representative (1849-53, 1859-68) who led Reconstruction measures and also the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
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I SPEAK FOR THADDEUS STEVENS
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good. 1947. Hardcover. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1947). Cloth, 8vo, nice inscription from Singmaster to a friend,"... Gettysburg, 1952." Pages becoming a bit "bleached", but a nice copy in a chipped but good DJ. .
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. 8vo sized cloth bound hardcover with color illustrated dust jacket; 446 bright pages. This is a fictionalized biography / historical fiction of Pennsylvania statesman Thaddeus Stevens. Elsie Singmaster (1879-1958) was known for her juvenile historical fiction and often chose the Civil War as her historical background. Singmaster was awarded a Newbury Honor for her 1934 juvenile historical fiction novel Swords of Steel. Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868) was a radical Republican of the Civil War/Reconstruction era. Stevens, who served as congressman from Pennsylvania, was a fierce advocate for African American rights, advocating full equality for the former slaves. Even requesting that he be buried in a black cemetery "to illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life - Equality of Man before his Creator." Stevens also served on the committee which drafted the Articles of Impeachment against President Andrew Johnson (Johnson was…
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