Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Dark brown cloth covered boards worn at extremities, corners bumped, chipped head & tail of spine and a few chips along edges of spine. Some soil of page edges, a few spots in text ; A tight solid book, hinges intact, frontispiece of Webster with tissue guard, blind stamped design front and back boards, gilt titles on spine ; 498 pages; This volume of the set is the biography of Daniel Webster .

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Bookseller: Ainsworth Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 10912
Title: Webster and His Master-pieces
Author: Tefft, B. F
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Miller, Orton & Mulligan
Place of Publication: Auburn
Date Published: 1854
Keywords: United States, Daniel Webster, Americas

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Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.

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