Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous
by BOLTON, Sarah K
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1885. Hardcover. 12mo. Brown cloth over bevelled boards with gilt and black lettering and decorations. viii, 367pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Quite mild edgewear; unusual 1887 Chihuahua, Mexico nonauthorial gift inscription on front flyleaf. An exceptionally tight, nice and internally near fine first edition of this highly eclectic rags-to-riches anthology, heavily American in focus. Profiled are George Peabody, Bayard Taylor, James B. Eads, James Watt, Josiah Mason, Bernard Palissy, Bertel Thorwaldsen, Wolfgang Mozart, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Michael Faraday, Henry Bessemer, Titus Salt, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Horace Greeley, William Lloyd Garrison, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Jean Paul Richter, Leon Gambetta, David G. Farragut, Ezra Cornell, Philip H. Sheridan, Thomas Cole, Ole Bull, Meissonier, George W. Childs, Dwight L. Moody and Abraham Lincoln.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36557
- Title
- Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous
- Author
- BOLTON, Sarah K
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Thomas Y. Crowell & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1885
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Biography; Americana;
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- First Edition
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- G
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- 12mo
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- Tight
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- 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...