Autobiography and Personal Recollections of John B. Gough, with Twenty-Six Years Experience As a Public Speaker
by Gough, John B
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
Springfield: Bill, Nichols & Co.. 1870. First Edition. G- with rubbing to cloth and a gouge at bottom corner of rear cover, foxing to frontispiece, title page and several other pages, front endpapers have an abraded spot, o/w contents are generally clean, binding solid. ; 8vo, publisher's brown pebbled cloth with facsimile gilt signature on cover, engraved frontispiece portrait of John B. Gough, illustrated by George Cruikshank and others, 552pp. .
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- Bookseller
- Old Editions Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 741
- Title
- Autobiography and Personal Recollections of John B. Gough, with Twenty-Six Years Experience As a Public Speaker
- Author
- Gough, John B
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bill, Nichols & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Springfield
- Date Published
- 1870
- Keywords
- Autobiography, Public, Speaker, John, Gough
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- Rubbing
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