A Treasury of the World's Great Speeches
by Houston Peterson, editor
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No dust jacket
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GAHANNA, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Grolier Incorporated, New York, 1954. Hardcover. First edition. Condition: Fine, like new. No dust jacket issued. 857 pp. Text is clean, white and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Part of Grollier's Treasury Series in presentation bindings. This volume "depicts the crises and cruxes of history" as orated by: Theodore Roosevelt, Sun Yat-sen, Georges Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Trotsky, Hitler, Mussolini, Gandhi, Nehru, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sir Winston Churchill, and many others. "Each speech prefaced with its dramatic and biographical setting and placed in the full historical perspective."
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- Bookseller
- Select Tomes (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100402
- Title
- A Treasury of the World's Great Speeches
- Author
- Houston Peterson, editor
- Format/Binding
- Black boards with gilted cover and spine. Like New condition.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grolier Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Pages
- 857
- Size
- 6 1/4 X 9 1/2
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- American Literature, American History
- Bookseller catalogs
- American Classics; Literature;
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I am making available selections from my collection of eclectic, historical and sometimes rare books. My collection includes historical novels, cookbooks, textbooks and children's books along with other ephemera.
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