THE EYE THAT NEVER SLEEPS: How Detective Pinkerton Saved President Lincoln.
by Moss, Marissa; illustrated by Jeremy Holmes
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)/fine
- ISBN 10
- 1419730649
- ISBN 13
- 9781419730641
- Seller
-
Ione, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York:: Harry N. Abrams,, (2018). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. The first children's book about Allan Pinkerton, one of America's greatest detectives; he was the first police detective in Chicago and established the country's most successful detective agency, credited with solving over 300 murders and recovering millions of dollars in stolen money. In 1861 assassins attempted to murder Lincoln en route to his inauguration, but Pinkerton brought the president safely to the capital. His house was a stop on the Underground Railroad and he befriended the abolitionist John Brown. Illustrated by Jeremy Holmes. Includes artist's and author's notes, a brief bibliography, timeline and index. Large oblong format. 48 pp.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 77364
- Title
- THE EYE THAT NEVER SLEEPS: How Detective Pinkerton Saved President Lincoln.
- Author
- Moss, Marissa; illustrated by Jeremy Holmes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1419730649
- ISBN 13
- 9781419730641
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2018)
- Keywords
- historical fiction,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's and Illustrated;
Terms of Sale
Bookfever.com, IOBA
Free media mail shipping in US included; priority is $7.50 and international at cost. Books are packed carefully, shipped promptly with delivery confirmation and insurance at our expense. It is important for our customers to be totally satisfied with their purchase and guarantee all of our books to be as described. Want lists welcomed.
About the Seller
Bookfever.com, IOBA
Biblio member since 2003
Ione, California
About Bookfever.com, IOBA
Celebrating our 30th year in business. We started selling books in the CompuServe Book Collecting forum in 1993, a few years before there was any commercial Internet. In 1998 we relocated our main business from Sacramento to the Sierra foothills of Amador County.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...