Sam Houston: The Great Designer
by Friend, Llerena
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1954 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. xiv, 394 pp, foreword, acknowledgments, list of b&w illustrations, The Tennessee Background; The Indian Interlude; Opportunist in Texas; General Houston; Houston's Republic; More Coy than Foreword: Diplomacy of Annexation; Senator Houston of Texas; Alone in the Senate; Aspirations to the Presidency; For Love of the Union; bibliography, index. First Edition, 1954. Price clipped. Only the slightest edgewear dj. Partially faded blue of top text block edge near spine, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Blue cloth with embossed silver signature of Sam Houston on front board, and silver lettering to spine..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000045
- Title
- Sam Houston: The Great Designer
- Author
- Friend, Llerena
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Place of Publication
- Austin
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- U.S. HISTORY WESTERN AMERICANA BIOGRAPHY HOUSTON SAM (SAMUEL) 1793-1863 TEXAS POLITICAL HISTORY 19TH CENTURY
- Bookseller catalogs
- U. S. HISTORY;
- Size
- Large 8vo
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- Jacket
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