LIFE AND TIMES OF CHARLES SUMNER: His Boyhood, Education, and Public Career
by Nason, Elias
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston, MA: B. B. Russell, 1874. 356 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding moderately soiled and rubbed w/ light discoloration to foredge of front cover. Illust. w/ a frontispiece of Charles Sumner, and a b/w plate of his early home. Contents nice.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M1349CW
- Title
- LIFE AND TIMES OF CHARLES SUMNER: His Boyhood, Education, and Public Career
- Author
- Nason, Elias
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- B. B. Russell
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1874
- Keywords
- MILITARY HISTORY CIVIL WAR 1861 1865 BIOGRAPHY SUMNER CHARLES 1811 1874 BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS STATE HISTORY MA SENATOR POLITICS GOVERNMENT WARFARE SLAVERY BLACK HISTORY AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY RACIAL HISTORY ETHNIC HISTORY AMERICANA UNITED STATES AMERICAN
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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