The World's Great Classics: Orations (4 Vols) - Essays (3 Vol.)
by Julian Hawthorne (Literary Editor)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Jim Thorpe , Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NY/London: The Colonial Press, 1900. 7 Volumes - All Bindings Firm, Pgs/Covers Clean - No Marks. All have Green Cloth HC Bindings w/gilt spine lettering/Deco, rough cut pgs & gilt tpe. All have frontis+ 3 to 5 photos/illus p/vol. Titles:- Orations: American Orators Vol.1 & II, incl the speechs of Geo.Washington, Samuel Adams, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, et al. -British Orators Vol.1 incl Edmund Burke, Lord Mansfield, John Bunyan, Lord Chesterfield et al, & Oratation of Marcus Tullius Cicero. Essays: French, German & Italian Essayists w/works of Voltaire, Friedrich Schiller, Schopenhauer, Hugo, Giuseppe Mazzini et al. American Essayists w/Emerson, Whitman, Benjamin Franklin et al. British Essayists Vol.II w/Charles Lamb, John Ruskin, T,H, Huxley et al. Sold as incomplete set of 7 Volumes Only. Xtra Shipping + Insurance. *More photos upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Revised Edn. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Clarence Cook (Art Editor).
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- Bookseller
- The Vintage Bookstore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003548
- Title
- The World's Great Classics: Orations (4 Vols) - Essays (3 Vol.)
- Author
- Julian Hawthorne (Literary Editor)
- Illustrator
- Clarence Cook (Art Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Revised Edn
- Publisher
- The Colonial Press
- Place of Publication
- NY/London
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- COLLECTIONS, ANTIQUARIAN, ESSAYS, LITERATURE, ORATORS, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, SPEECH, HISTORY, AMERICAN ANTHOLOGY, LITERARY COLLECTIONS
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- Collections/Multiple Volumes;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Jim Thorpe , Pennsylvania
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We are an internet only seller specializing in used, rare and out of print items. Lots of Children's books, Poetry, Literature and Antiquarian titles in Decorative Bindings.All books are on premises and usually ship, carefully wrapped, within 24 hours.
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