The Secret Six: The True Tale of the Men Who Conspired with John Brown - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Renehan, Edward J., Jr
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 051759028X
- ISBN 13
- 9780517590287
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. c1995. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 051759028X . A smart first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition with lightly foxed top edge in Very Good+ condition with light edgewear and a one inch closed tear to front lower corner; The story of the six northern aristocrats who planned John Brown's raid and ignited the Civil War. The "Secret Six" included Thomas Wentworth Higginson, minister, author, and editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Samuel Howe, world-famous physician; Theodore Parker, the Unitarian minister whose rhetoric helped shape Lincoln's Gettysburg Address; Franklin Sanborn, an educator and close friend of Emerson and Thoreau; and the immensely wealthy Gerrit Smith and George Luther Sterns; B & W Photographs; 8vo; 308 pages; FSA .
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46523
- Title
- The Secret Six: The True Tale of the Men Who Conspired with John Brown - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Renehan, Edward J., Jr
- Format/Binding
- 1/4 Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 051759028X
- ISBN 13
- 9780517590287
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- c1995
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-of Print, John Brown, John Brown's Raid, Harper's Ferry Virginia, Slave Revolts Uprising, US History 19th Century, US Civil War 1861-1865, Abolitionism Abolitionists, Antebellum Period
- Bookseller catalogs
- History / Civil War;
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