FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS: BEING AN ATTEMPT TO TRACE TO THEIR SOURCE PASSAGES AND PHRASES IN COMMON USE
by BARTLETT, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Front endpaper detached; hinges cracked. Slight fraying to the spine head. Good
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Maria Weston Chapman was an American abolitionist who was the principal lieutenant of the radical antislavery leader William Lloyd Garrison. She edited THE LIBERATOR, a widely-circulated abolitionist publication.
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- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019038
- Title
- FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS: BEING AN ATTEMPT TO TRACE TO THEIR SOURCE PASSAGES AND PHRASES IN COMMON USE
- Author
- BARTLETT, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Front endpaper detached; hinges cracked. Slight fraying to the spine head. Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Seventh Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1878
- Keywords
- Signed, Association Copy, Inscribed, Quotations
- Bookseller catalogs
- Inscribed; Association Copy; Abolitionism;
Terms of Sale
Charles Agvent
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About the Seller
Charles Agvent
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