AN AMERICAN FOUR-IN-HAND IN BRITAIN
by Carnegie, Andrew
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Redding, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1899. A beautiful, near fine copy in the publishers red cloth with embossed horsehead surrounded by a gilt horeshoe on the front board, spine lettered in gilt. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ANDREW CARNEGIE TO BISHOP WARREN, with an additional inscription on the bottom of the first free endpaper. Bishop Henry Warren was a noted Methodist clergyman whose strong pro-temperance stand and anti-McKinley sermons made him a close friend of Andrew Carnegie.. Near Fine. 8vo..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaker Hill Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 884781
- Title
- AN AMERICAN FOUR-IN-HAND IN BRITAIN
- Author
- Carnegie, Andrew
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1899
- Bookseller catalogs
- New York 09;
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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- Inscribed
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....