THE GREAT REHEARSAL The Story of the Making and Ratifying of the Constitution of the United States
by Carl Van Doren
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Delaware, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 336 pages; Peach-toned hard covers with black feather pen illustration on front. Dark green title box with gold lettering on spine. Spine is staight, binding tight. Front jacket flap is pasted to inside front board. Former owner's libris label pasted down on front end page. Interior pages are clean and are vanilla in tone. No dust jacket. ** The great story of how the United States became a nation, known first hand only to Washington and Hamilton, and to the others show shared their conclaves, has reposed only in a bare official record and in the scattered notes and diaries kept by a few of the conerees, These came out piecemeal over the following dozen decades and have never been made feely available except in scholarly publications. .
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- Bookseller
- The Reading Well Bookstore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4715
- Title
- THE GREAT REHEARSAL The Story of the Making and Ratifying of the Constitution of the United States
- Author
- Carl Van Doren
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no Dust Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- HISTORY, US History, American History
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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