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Allan Nevins on History
by NEVINS, Allan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0684143208
- ISBN 13
- 9780684143200
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. Hardcover. Compiled and introduced by Ray Allen Billlington. Small 4to. Red cloth with blue spine lettering, dust jacket. xxvii, 420pp. Fine/near fine. First edition, tight and handsome, of this readable compilation of Nevins' lectures, speeches, and papers regarding his theories on how history needs to be written. A Nevins-signed copy of this posthumously-published title being a good trick, this copy bears the next best thing: Tipped facing the title page is a unique frontispiece, a Typed Letter Signed from Nevins, 1p, 5½" X 8½", San Marino, CA, 2 September 1969. Addressed to Margaret April of the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop. Fine. On imprinted letterhead, Nevins discusses an upcoming visit of this bookshop's founder to his home, "where I have assembled a large body of material for his examination." Crabbed full signature in black ballpoint. Unusual!
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 162
- Title
- Allan Nevins on History
- Author
- NEVINS, Allan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0684143208
- ISBN 13
- 9780684143200
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Americana;
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