Bricks Without Straw. A Novel
by Tourgee, Albion W
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1880. Albion Tourgee (1838-1905), a major figure of the Reconstruction following the American Civil War, argued on the losing side of the notorious Supreme Court case "Plessy v. Ferguson." History now recognizes him to have been on the correct side, morally. A Radical Republican, his popular novels were told with sympathy toward the African-American experience. This is a Very Good Plus to Near Fine copy of the First Edition. Red cloth binding witha highly-decorative blindstamed design on both front & back covers); gilt lettering on the spine. All very bright. Clean and fresh text; supple and quite readable. 521 pages with 4 pages of publisher's adverts in the back. Contemporary previous-owner signature on the FFEP. This copy lacks the erratum slip for Page 343; it is a Second State, as the text has been corrected. An extremely attractive copy by a major figure in American legal and political history. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition.. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002404
- Title
- Bricks Without Straw. A Novel
- Author
- Tourgee, Albion W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Fords, Howard, & Hulbert
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1880
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- CIVIL WAR, SLAVERY, RECONSTRUCTION, RADICA
- Bookseller catalogs
- American Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Fine
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- Gilt
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- Spine
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- First Edition
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- Jacket
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