Blennerhassett Island in Romance and Tragedy: The Authentic Story of Blennerhassett Island with the Burr Episode entwined about it -- The Romance and Mystery of the Blennerhassetts -- Burr under Footlights and Shadows -- Tragedy of Theodosia Burr
by LOWTHER, Minnie Kendall
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0870121642
- ISBN 13
- 9780870121647
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About This Item
Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 1974. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with yellow lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 201pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/very good. Binding pristine, though three page corners formerly folded and paragraph ink-circled on page 190; jacket a bitr rubbed and lightly edgeworn. Tight and nice reprint of this 1939 account of (to cite title page) "One of the most colorful chapters in American History" regarding this island on the Ohio River in West Virginia where Aaron Burr and Harman Blennerhassett supposedly plotted treason against the U.S.
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- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
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- Title
- Blennerhassett Island in Romance and Tragedy: The Authentic Story of Blennerhassett Island with the Burr Episode entwined about it -- The Romance and Mystery of the Blennerhassetts -- Burr under Footlights and Shadows -- Tragedy of Theodosia Burr
- Author
- LOWTHER, Minnie Kendall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0870121642
- ISBN 13
- 9780870121647
- Publisher
- McClain Printing Company
- Place of Publication
- Parsons, WV
- Date Published
- 1974
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Americana;
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