RECORDS OF AN ACTIVE LIFE. (Autobiography of Reverend Heman Dyer who was chancellor of Western University of Pennsylvania now the University of Pittsburgh.). This item is unavailable.RECORDS OF AN ACTIVE LIFE. (Autobiography of Reverend Heman Dyer who was chancellor of Western University of Pennsylvania now the University of Pittsburgh.)

Third edition revised (as stated upon title page). [frontis], i-xiv, 7-458 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14.75cm. No dust jacket. Maroon cloth; beveled edge boards rubbed; milt sunning to spine; gilt stamping to spine and front board remains bright. Top edge gilt. Dark brown endpapers. Frontispiece b/w portrait of author retains its guard sheet. Interior leaves are clean. Binding is firm. An attractive copy of an uncommon autobiography. Concluding pages 451-458 of Appendix reprints a May 18, 1862 letter from Edwin M. Stanton (Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of War) to Reverend Dyer in which Stanton ruminates on his relations with General McClellan.