KANSAS TERRITORY
by HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- General Moderate Wear
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1856. This is Executive Document Number 10, 34th Congress, Third Session. The document is 36 pages in length. A message from the President of the United States (Franklin Pierce) referred to the Committee on Territories, and including extracts from a letter of Governor Geary, together with a copy of executive minutes of the Kansas Territory. Fascinating material on care of prisoners, dealing with local Indians, and other matters. Bound in full brown leather, rebacked at some point. Leather label on front cover "Library House of Reps". Label is chipped at edges. All letters intact. Endpapers are browned at edges and chipped. The document is generally quite clean, title-page browned at free edge. A look at the doings in Kansas five years before Statehood. 36pp.. First Edition. Full-Leather. General Moderate Wear. Thin Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011069
- Title
- KANSAS TERRITORY
- Author
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - General Moderate Wear
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Place of Publication
- Washington
- Date Published
- 1856
- Size
- Thin Octavo
- Keywords
- Kansas, Kansas History
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...