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Lost Rights: The Misadventures of a Stolen American Relic [INSCRIBED]

Lost Rights: The Misadventures of a Stolen American Relic [INSCRIBED]

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Lost Rights: The Misadventures of a Stolen American Relic [INSCRIBED]

by Howard, David

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ISBN 10
0618826076
ISBN 13
9780618826070
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. INSCRIBED. Rust and goldenrod paper-covered boards, lettered in gold foil. Very slight binding lean, otherwise as issued. Dust jacket shows minor rubbing along top edge. 1st ptg. [viii],344 pp. Inscribed by author on half-title, full signature, personalized to "My favorite intern / and real estate / agent!".

Synopsis

Near the close of the Civil War, as General Sherman blazed his path to the sea, an unknown infantryman rifled through the North Carolina state house.The soldier was hunting for simple Confederate mementos—maps, flags, official correspondence—but he wound up discovering something far more valuable. He headed home to Ohio with one of the touchstones of our republic: one of the fourteen original copies of the Bill of Rights. Lost Rights follows that document’s singular passage over the course of 138 years, beginning with the Indiana businessman who purchased the looted parchment for five dollars, then wending its way through the exclusive and shadowy world of high-end antiquities—a world populated by obsessive archivists, oddball collectors, forgers, and thieves— and ending dramatically with the FBI sting that brought the parchment back into the hands of the government. For fans of The Billionaire’s Vinegar and The Lost Painting , Lost Rights is “a tour de force of antiquarian sleuthing” (Hampton Sides).

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Bookseller
Saucony Book Shop US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
RS571
Title
Lost Rights: The Misadventures of a Stolen American Relic [INSCRIBED]
Author
Howard, David
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Near Fine
Edition
1st Edition
ISBN 10
0618826076
ISBN 13
9780618826070
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2010
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Bookseller catalogs
American History; Bibliography, Books on Books, Printing;

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About Saucony Book Shop

The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. We make no attempt to be a general-service book shop. Our inventory is highly selective, individually chosen from among the hundreds of thousands of books to which we have access annually at auctions, library and estate sales, and through individual scouts and vendors. We do not handle material that does not meet our expectations in terms of condition or interest to our specialized, idiosyncratic customers. Despite maintaining a browsing inventory of more than 15,000 volumes, we have minimized our carbon footprint by maintaining our entire operation in a cozy ca. 1890 barn and lean-to adjacent to an historic creamery in rural Maxatawny Township. Our shop is available for browsing by appointment and occasionally, in temperate weather, by chance, so email or call ahead to peruse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel. Thanks for reading about us! Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

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