THIRTY YEARS IN THE SENATE by ThoMAS BENTON - 1854

D. Appleton and Company. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

D. Appleton, 1893. Leather. Very Good. in x in x in. No DJ. Vol. 2 only. Scuffing to covers. Inked name on front free page: Corrine S. Foote, 1894. No other markings in book. Binding is tight. Marbled page edges.

D. Appleton and Company. hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. This actually the presumed first ed., 1856, of both volumes in a two-volume set. Title given is that on the spines of the volumes but the t.p. title is as follows: THIRTY YEARS' VIEW; OR, A HISTORY OF THE WORKING OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT FOR THIRTY YEARS, FROM 1820 TO 1850. CHIEFLY TAKEN FROM THE CONGRESS DEBATES, THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF GENERAL JACKSON AND THE SPEECHES OF EX-SENATOR BENTON, WITH HIS ACTUAL VIEW OF MEN AND AFFAIRS: WITH HISTORICAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS, AND SOME NOTICES OF EMINENT DECEASED CONTEMPORARIES: BY A SENATOR OF THIRTY YEARS IN TWO VOLUMES. Vol.I, 739 p., clean and unmarked on strong but foxed paper, has frontis. engraved portrait of author as frontis., with tissue guard; cracked gutters, bumped corners, and badly abraded spine panel with closed tear from chipped crown to chipped foot. Vol. II, 788 p., plus catalog, clean and unmarked within but with penciled signature of former owner on upper edge of t.p. and on… Read More

D. Appleton & Co, 1854-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. First ed., 4to; 2-vol. set, 739 p. & 788 p., respectively; paper strong, mildly age-toned but foxed; former owner's name on front paste downs, as well as labels showing they were part of a bequest and a gift label to a library on the second vol.; the front gutter on vol. I is cracked but both volumes are square; brown boards with blind-stamped design are faded at edges, bumped and rubbed, gilt lettering and Great Seal of the U.S. stamped on spines is fading.