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Onward to Fame and Fortune Or Climbing Life's Ladder. Containing seventy-five superb portraits and numerous other illustrations.
by THAYER, William Makepeace
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Christian Herald, 1897. OCLC only records this edition of 1897. Heavy octavo (6 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches). 446 pp. Profusely illustrated. Publisher's red cloth with the front elaborately lettered and designed in gilt and black, black spine lettering. Hinge invisibly repaired. A very clean and attractive copy.William Makepeace Thayer was born in Massachusetts in 1820. He graduated from Brown in 1843, studied theology, and was a pastor at the orthodox Congregational church in Ashland, Massachusetts from 1849 to 1857. Due to throat trouble, he left the church in 1858 and decided to focus on literary work. He wrote numerous religious and juvenile books including The Bobbin Boy; The Pioneer Boy; From Log-Cabin to the White House; Tact, Push, and Principle; From Pioneer Home to the White House; and From Tannery to the White House. He died in 1898. He favored biographies and penned histories of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, James A. Garfield and Ulysses S. Grant.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76117
- Title
- Onward to Fame and Fortune Or Climbing Life's Ladder. Containing seventy-five superb portraits and numerous other illustrations.
- Author
- THAYER, William Makepeace
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Christian Herald
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1897
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About the Seller
Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
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Portland, Oregon
About Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
Nat DesMarais Rare Books specializes in books on the Sierra Nevada (particularly Yosemite), the Mojave, and California books in general. We also deal in the art of the American West, voyages and travels and nineteenth century literature.
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