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185827334Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co 1858. 1st edition. Cloth. Very Good. 1st edition. A Very Good copy. Tall 8vo. xxv 11-645 pp. Bound in the publisher's brown cloth with gilt title on the spine. Tips and spine caps rubbed. Library book plate. Inscribed gift slip affixed to the font paste down gifting this book from Geo. Sherwood Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and Dean of the Univ. of PA. Law School. J. B. Lippincott & Co unknown
18751395431New York: James Cockcroft & Company 1875. Hardcover. Octavo Two volumes: xxv 645 pages ; xvi 560 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is brown with gold print number label on first volume. Boards in brown cloth with gold print mitred edges. Fraying to spine caps and corners wear to bottom edges second volume has cocked spine. Text blocks of both volumes have cracked front hinge light age-toning to paper. <br /> Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portraits. <br /> <br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates.<br /> <br /> NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column R. 1395431. FP New Rockville Stock. James Cockcroft & Company hardcover
186047775New York D. Appleton & Company 1860. Hardcover. Original brown cloth. Extremities slightly worn with fraying at top end of backstrip; backstrip and cover edges sun-faded; pages slightly toned; small tears at outside margin of p. 233-240; previous owner's name penciled on title page and front endpaper; otherwise in very good condition. . 283p. Illus. Frontispiece with tissue guard and several in-text illustrations. Wright II: 908. An anonymous novel published in the North on the eve of the Civil War satirizing a New England abolitionist clergyman and depicting the dire consequences of his harboring a fugitive slave. This was one of several novels written in reaction to Uncle Tom's Cabin. The frontis. and some of the text illustrations mockingly depict the fugitive. New York, D. Appleton & Company hardcover
186640267Philadelphia 1866. 31 1 blank pp. Broken stitching. Light tanning some chipping to bottom outer corners of first few leaves. Old rubberstamp on title page. Light wear. Good. <br /> <br /> "In his Observations on Reconstruction 1866 Henry Flanders challenged the motives of Republican politicians. They cared little for the black man he insisted but sought instead to keep slavery's image before the American voting public. 'Although slavery is dead' wrote Flanders 'political anti-slavery is alive and the imaginary wrongs of the negro in a state of freedom are useful in the shifts of party as his real wrongs in a state of slavery'." Smith "The Old Arguments Anew: Proslavery and Antislavery Thought during Reconstruction" The Kentucky Review: Vol. 6 : No. 1 Article 2 p.14. 1986.<br /> LCP 3696. Sabin 24672. unknown
187512058New York: James Cockcroft & Company 1875. Revised Edition" on the spines. Hardcover. Good. Two volumes in russet cloth decorated in black & bright gilt the bindings are edge-worn with fraying at the spine ends and corner tips each 9 x 6 inches. Old library bookplate & stamp on the front end papers otherwise unmarked. Frontispiece portraits of John Jay and John Marshall. Vol. I. xxv 1 11-645 2 pages with one page having a small portion stuck to another now separated. Vol. II. xvi 9-560 1 with the final free end paper torn and laid in. Both volumes with a thin tidemark in the bottom margins. "It has been the author's careful endeavor to state facts with precision and suppress or extenuate nothing that the public were entitled to know. He trusts that the day has passed when exaggeration can supply the place of truth and empty eulogy take the place of authentic information. It is believed that the reader will find in the following pages the political history of his country fairly related and the character of its public men delineated without improper bias." - Preface.The lives of John Jay John Rutledge William Cushing Oliver Ellsworth and John Marshall. James Cockcroft & Company hardcover
1873055742Edinburgh: Turnbull And Spears 1873. 2 volumes original brown cloth gilt in tidy condition slightly rubbed at the edges some occasional spotting in places hinges a little delicate. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 4to. Turnbull And Spears Hardcover
1884164451Liege : Leon De Thier 1884. First Edition. Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 28 pages; Description: 28 p. Subject: Agriculture--Flanders Liege : Leon De Thier paperback
1873003228Edinburgh: Printed for the Translator By Turnbull & Spears 1873 10 349pp; 6 284pp 7 bound in original brown cloth with gilt borders armorial designs thistles & fleur-de-lis gilt still bright. Includes half-titles tissue-guarded engraved frontis in each volumes and a List of Subscriber's at the end of volume II. Covers show bumped corners vol. I has wear to top/heel/portion of edge of backstrip hinges cracked interior foxing mostly on prelims. BINDINGS TIGHT. Printed for the Translator By Turnbull & Spears hardcover
186015343New York: D. Appleton & Company 1860. First and apparently only edition 8vo pp. 4 283; frontispiece 12 illustrations in text; original green cloth gilt-lettered spine; top of spine cracked and spine with small but noticeable oil stain over part of the title; good; ex-MHS. Wright Fiction II 908: "Satire on an abolitionist organization. D. Appleton & Company unknown