GREAT SENATORS OF THE UNITED STATES FORTY YEARS AGO, (1848 AND 1849): With Personal Recollections and Delineations of Calhoun, Benton, Clay, Webster, General Houston, Jefferson Davis, and Other Distinguished Statesmen of That Period
by Dyer, Oliver
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good-/No Dust Jacket
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Robert Bonner's Sons (1889) 316+2 pp. Original mustard yellow cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding moderately soiled and rubbed. Spine darkened. Corners and spine ends bumped. Ex-library w/ usual markings. Tiny chips to outer margin of leaves 209 and 211, not affecting text.. Hard Cover. Good-/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Shoemaker Booksellers
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- 7302
- Title
- GREAT SENATORS OF THE UNITED STATES FORTY YEARS AGO, (1848 AND 1849): With Personal Recollections and Delineations of Calhoun, Benton, Clay, Webster, General Houston, Jefferson Davis, and Other Distinguished Statesmen of That Period
- Author
- Dyer, Oliver
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- Robert Bonner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Keywords
- POLITICS GOVERNMENT CONGRESS AMERICAN HISTORY UNITED STATES SENATORS BIOGRAPHY STATESMEN 1848 1849 CALHOUN JOHN C. CALDWELL 1782 1850 BENTON THOMAS H. HART 1782 1858 CLAY HENRY 1777 1852 WEBSTER DANIEL 1782 1852 HOUSTON SAM GENERALS 1793 1863 DAVIS JEFFER
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- Politics;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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