Frederic T Gammon (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair- Age Spots. No Jacket. Italy's Liberator: The story of General Garibaldi's Life.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This copy is in very good condition bound in illustrated brown cloth covered boards, with gilt titling to the spine and the upper board, a dust wrapper is not called for. The text block is tight, white, bright and square. The tissue guard to the frontis is partially torn. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 - September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881, until his assassination later that year. Garfield had served nine terms in the House of Representatives, and had been elected to the Senate before his candidacy for the White House, though he declined the Senate seat once he was elected President. He is the only sitting House member to be elected president Garfield was raised by his widowed mother in humble circumstances on an Ohio farm. He worked at various jobs, including on a canal boat, in his youth. Beginning at age 17, he attended several Ohio schools, then studied at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, graduating in 1856. A year later, Garfield entered politics as a Republican. He married Lucretia Rudolph in 1858, and served as a member of the Ohio State Senate (1859-1861). On July 2, 1881, he was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington D.C. by Charles J. Guiteau, a lawyer and writer with a grievance. The wound was not immediately fatal for Garfield, but his doctors' uncleaned and unprotected hands are said to have led to infection that caused his death on September 19. Guiteau was convicted of the murder and was executed in June 1882; he tried to name his crime as simple assault by blaming the doctors for Garfield's death. With his term cut short by his death after only 200 days, and much of it spent in ill health trying to recover from the attack, Garfield is little-remembered other than for his assassination; historians often forgo listing him in rankings of U.S. presidents due to the short length of his presidency. Ref YY5.

Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Duodecimo. Dark green pictorial cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering on covers. 152 pages. A biography of James Garfield. Four black and white engravings, including frontispiece and chapter headings and tailpieces. 16 pages of adverts at rear of book. Light wear to covers. Binding a little loose in places. Short gift dedication on front paste down. Front endpaper has been removed. Pages generally clean and white, and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Circa 1890's. Preface by author. " In the following pages the Author has briefly sketched the remarkable career of this illustrious man [General Garfield], in the hope that the simple narrative may induce many to emulate his example." (Preface) " Fully Illustrated". XIII chapters, 142 pp. plus S. W. Partridge & Co.'s Catalogue of Popular Illustrated Books. Gift inscription ffep is dated 1917 (Xmas). Book is tight and square. 4" vertical crease from base of spine, bumped at front panel near head of spine. Bookseller's Inventory # 241952.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1881 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 183 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 183.