The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, And Probable Designs: Being An Attempt To Explain The Real Issues Involved In the American Contest
by Cairnes, J. E. [John Eliott]
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York: Carleton, Publisher, 1862. Second Edition. An ex-library copy in very good condition in its original brown cloth covered boards with red leather, gilt text stamped, label on the front board. An octavo measuring 9" by 5 1/2" with a 1/2" deep chip from the cloth at the head of the spine, "withdrawn" stamps on the first free end page, a blind, embossed seal on the title page with a tape repair on the verso side and with numerous careful underlining marks in pencil throughout the text. 171 pages of text.
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- Seller
- Town's End Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- TB27733
- Title
- The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, And Probable Designs: Being An Attempt To Explain The Real Issues Involved In the American Contest
- Author
- Cairnes, J. E. [John Eliott]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Carleton, Publisher
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1862
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Title Page
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