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Building and Ruling the Republic with Lives of the Presidential Candidates
by Boyd, James P
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/None
- Seller
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Easton, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: J. C. McCurdy & Co., 1884. Hardcover. Fair/None. Brown cloth boards stamped with gilt and black decoration and black titling on front cover and spine, rubbed and stained, esp. on back. Extremities badly rubbed; spine ends frayed. Corners bumped. Hinge cracked at last page. That last page and rear end papers are chipped along edge. Owner's name and address in pencil on pastedown and decorative script inked on ffep, also in pencil on verso and pencil calculations on ffep and a fep; no marginalia or underlining. light foxing on title page and periodically throughout. Front hinge cracked and shaky. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Contents in four parts, I. Building: (Geographically, Politically, Industrially); II. Ruling: (Nationally, and By States Through Parties); III. Living Questions: (Civil Service Reform, Polygamy, Prohibition, Protection and Free Trade, Surplus Revenue); and IV. Lives of the Candidates: (For President and Vice-President, 1884). The Democratic side of the campaign is paginated separately as an additional 67 pp. of Part IV. With as engraving of the White House as frontispiece, protective tissue intact. B&W illustrations. U.S. History; American History; Campaign of 1884; James G. Blaine; John A. Logan; Hon. Stephen Grover Cleveland; Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks; U.S. Politics
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- Bookseller
- Quadrant Book Mart
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10875
- Title
- Building and Ruling the Republic with Lives of the Presidential Candidates
- Author
- Boyd, James P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair/None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J. C. McCurdy & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 1884
- Pages
- 784
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About the Seller
Quadrant Book Mart
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Easton, Pennsylvania
About Quadrant Book Mart
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- FFEP
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- Verso
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- Hinge
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- Marginalia
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- Spine
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- E.P.
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- Title Page
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- G
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