Published by Hartford Publishing Company; 1st Edition (January 1, 1868), 1868
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . B011IQYZJ6 Hardback. No dustjacket. Bound in 3/4 brown leather with gold gilt lettering and design and raised bands on the spine. Tight sound copy with average wear overall, but pretty much a tight sound reading copy only due to being an Ex library copy with the usual faults, Ink stamps, spine label, card pocket, etc. Still a nice tight sound copy with average edge wear and with the steel engravings intact. Some waterstaining to the edges of the steel engravings but this does intrude onto the portrait images , just the blank white space around them. No Signature.
Published by Hartford Publishing Company, Hartford, Connecticut, 1868
Seller: A Turn of the Page Books, Fishers, IN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. With 18 Steel Engravings (illustrator). 1st Edition. This is the First edition of this title and it was sold by subcription only. There were two states of the title page. In the first state "Douglas" was misspelled. In the second state of the tile page, it was corrected to "Douglass". This is the most typical state the book is found in. This volume has the corrected title page. The rest of the book is first state. In this work Harriet Beecher Stowe profiles the great men of her time and the book has eighteen wonderful plates inserted that have tissue guards. Written right after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, she uses the first 110 pages of the book to detail his life and the assassination. It's interesting to read the reaction of a contemporary. Abraham Lincoln referred to Stowe as "The little woman who started this big war". He was referring to Uncle Tom's Cabin at the time. The book is described as "being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals, and orators including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher". "Beautifully illustrated with eighteen steel portraits". There is a bit of fraying to the cloth at the foot of the spine. Otherwise a very good copy of this important work.
Published by Worthington, Dustin & Co., Hartford, 1872
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated with 19 Steel Engravings (illustrator). First Edition. Original full leather binding with raised bands worn and chipped the front hinge, rubbed at the extremities, and worn at the tips. Light foxing within the text. The nineteen steel engravings are well executed.