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Great Leaders in Human Progress
by Edward Howard Griggs
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +/No Jacket
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
£68.71£48.10
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About This Item
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1939 Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN. 1939. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Retired small town library with little use. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a library stamp on the front pastedown and an index number on the spine. Book Condition: Good +; pocket and checkout slip on the front endpapers; light shelfwear to head, tail, tips and board bottom edges; slight sunfading to spine; light soiling to boards. No DJ. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Clean internals. Internal hinges are sound and not split. 191 pp 12mo. The author of this book was an educator and lecturer who spoke on statesmanship and was asked to provide weekly broadcasts on NBC on the Lives of Great Men. His 13 choices, he felt were outstanding leaders of the mind and spirit and aided the onflowing stream of human progress. They were Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Theodoric the Great, St. Francis of Assisi, Dante, Savonarola, Leonard Da Vinci, Erasmus, Giordano Bruno, Shakespeare, Spinoza, Voltaire, and Benjamin Franklin. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016612
- Title
- Great Leaders in Human Progress
- Author
- Edward Howard Griggs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis, IN
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Edward Howard Griggs, Human progress, World Leaders, Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Theodoric the Great, St. Francis of Assisi, Dante, Savonarola, Leonard Da Vinci, Erasmus, Giordano Bruno, Shakespeare, Spinoza, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, orators, Great Le
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- 12mo
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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