LIFE OF CAPTAIN NATHAN HALE, THE MARTYR-SPY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
by STUART, I.W
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Light Edge Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Hartford.: F.A. Brown, 1856. Covers embossed floral designs in blind-stamp. Gilt medallion front cover, gilt lettering and Hale Monument on spine. Spine sunned to tan. Crack at rear of top 2 1/2" of spine, reglued. Spine ends frayed. White endpapers with floral designs. Bookplate on front pastedown. Embossed bookseller's stamp on a front preliminary page. Illustrated with full-page black and white plates with tissue-guards, with additional drawing in the text. Light foxing noted, some peripherally on a few plates. A very tight copy. Twelve pages of testimonials at the end attesting to the merits of the book. 271pp.. Second Edition. Brown Cloth. Light Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002108
- Title
- LIFE OF CAPTAIN NATHAN HALE, THE MARTYR-SPY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
- Author
- STUART, I.W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Edge Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- F.A. Brown
- Place of Publication
- Hartford.
- Date Published
- 1856
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- AMERICANA ,A MERICAN HISTORY, REVOLUTION
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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