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Men of Our Times; or, Leading Patriots of the Day. Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of Statesmen, Generals, and Orators..
by STOWE, Harriet Beecher
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- first
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Hartford: Hartford Publishing Co, 1868. First Edition. Second state with the corrected "Douglass" on line 10. Octavo (22.5cm.); original green gilt-embossed cloth, all edges sprinkled, brown glazed endpapers; xiv,[11]-575pp.; steel engraved author portrait frontispiece, 17 plates. Some shelf wear, especially at corners, spine gilt a bit dulled; some plates foxed and dampstained, plate of Lincoln's portrait torn along top half of gutter edge slightly affecting image, else contents Very Good; later bookplate of a George Munson Curtis to front pastedown. Subjects include Ulysses S. Grant, Frederick Douglass, and Henry Ward Beecher. BAL 19449.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22684
- Title
- Men of Our Times; or, Leading Patriots of the Day. Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of Statesmen, Generals, and Orators..
- Author
- STOWE, Harriet Beecher
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hartford Publishing Co
- Place of Publication
- Hartford
- Date Published
- 1868
- Keywords
- Ulysses S. Grant Frederick Douglass Henry Ward Beecher
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- BAL
- Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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