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The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams
by Maier, Pauline
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394510968
- ISBN 13
- 9780394510965
- Seller
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Traverse City, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394510968 . The author explores the first radicals of the revolutionary era in this carefully researched book: Samuel Adams, Isaac Sears, Dr. Thomas Young, Richard Henry Lee, and Charles Carroll of Carrollton. She examines the strands that linked them and that also separated them from their loyalist friends, neighbors and associates. The younger radicals that followed them actually became the "Founding Fathers." Contains an indexin the rear. Original blue cloth publisher's covers with gilt spine lettering. This is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings, no previous owner names and no bookplates. The dust jacket in similarly nice condition with no chips, tears, or markings. This is copy would make a fine addition to any library. The dust jacket is now in a protective archival removable acetate cover. ; B&W Photos & Maps; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall; 309 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Peninsula Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20654
- Title
- The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams
- Author
- Maier, Pauline
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394510968
- ISBN 13
- 9780394510965
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- 0394510968, American History, Revolutionary War, Colonial America, Biography
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About the Seller
Peninsula Books
Biblio member since 2023
Traverse City, Michigan
About Peninsula Books
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