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Published by Ward, Lock and Co., London, 1900
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover (no jacket). Written and edited by Charles Dickens. No publication date stated; it was not published in 1900. Edgeworn exterior with minor marks and tanning; splits to the spine ends, edges and leading corners. Most of the front spine side is split. Foxing and tanning on the page block and some pages. Ex-library with lending history sheet partially pasted to the opening page; stamps on a few pages throughout. Review sheet partially pasted on to page 10. Binding a little exposed at points, otherwise generally remains sound. All text is clear. CM. Used.
[SMITH, Horace W., ed]. Miscellaneous Americana. A Collection of History, Biography and Genealogy. Washington, DC: William F. Boogher, 1895. 1st ed. vii, 227 pp. Frontis., illus., portraits. Orig. cloth, gilt-lettered brown morocco spine label. Spine lightly sunned, else near fine. Includes articles on Penn family wills, Clement Biddle, the coinage of the United States, letters from William Strahan to David Hall, other materials having to do with the Revolution,
Published by Horace W. Smith, Philadelphia, 1856
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: fine. First edition. First edition. Dark brown blindstamped cloth with spine titled in gilt. 90 pp. A refutation of the positive treatment of the Revolutionary War conduct of Joseph Reed as made by Washington Irving in his "Life of Washington". The author, in charges echoed a decade later by historian George Bancroft, makes claims that Reed's treatment was Washington was disgraceful and that he contemplated desertion to the Hessians on the eve of the Battle of Trenton. Reprinted here is General John Cadwallader's 1783 pamphlet " A Reply to Genl. Joseph Reed's Remarks" including supporting statements by such men as Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Rush; an excerpt from a journal kept by Margaret Morris of Burlington, New Jersey in January, 1777; and the so-called "Valley Forge Letters", written in 1778 by Continental Army Sgt., Andrew Kemp and found by the family of George Clinton in the 1840s and subsequently printed in a newspaper in 1842. A generally fine example, touch of shelf wear to the bottom edge. The front and rear blanks have a light dampstain but this does not extend to the text. Pencil signature front pastedown.