Vindication Captors Major Andre, Used (11 results)

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Gregg Press Edition. 83 pages. Possible ex-library copy.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Vindication Of The Captors Of Major André has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 99p. 20th century quarter calf with marbled boards and endpapers. Major Andre was hanged as a spy by the Continental Army for assisting Benedict Arnold's attempted surrender of the fort at West Point, New York, to the British. From the Library Company in Philadelphia with their bookplate on the inside front board. 'Duplicate sale' written at the corner of the bookplate. Hinge a little rubbed, but holding firm. Library shelf number gilt stamped on the spine. Small spot on the title page and an old handwritten notation regarding Major Andre inserted after the title page. Light occasional browning, otherwise a clean copy of this scarce first edition.

hard cover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. New York: Kirk and Mercein. 1817. First edition. 99pp. Harcover, no jacket. Fair condtion. Original paper boards are age darkened and heavily rubbed/soiled; the spine covering is missing, exposing the string binding which is somewhat fragile but holdinig together. There are significant stains, especially at the front and back, but the text is mostly clean and perfectly readable. There are a handful of pencilled notes in the margins.  Very scarce first edition of Egbert Benson's vindication of the captors of Major Andre in the Benedict Arnold saga.  Benson was a founding father who represented New York at the Continental Congress and served as Chief Justice of the NY Supreme Court.  (cfm).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 6.5 x 4.5", later half brown leather with gilt lettering and trim, marbled boards, teg, 99pp. Leather is scuffed/scraped, bookplate (Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow), front inner hinge cracked, endpapers and first few pp toned, light staining to back of title page else very good condition. Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow was a prominent corporation lawyer and a player in the Democratic Party. He supported James Buchanan in his presidential bid and later served as an advisor to him but was unsuccessful in getting his very good friend General McClellan elected president in 1864. Barlow had a notable collection of early Americana. The author, Egbert Benson, was appointed Attorney General of the State of New York which made him well-qualified to write this book. Very SCARCE.

hardcover. Condition: good. Second. xi, 134pp. 8vo, contemporary 3/4 red morocco, head of spine lightly worn, morocco rubbed, page 5 with small dampstained in upper right corner margin that has been crudely repaired with tape. light foxing to margins of first few pages. New York: Privately Printed, 1865. Second Edition One of 80 copies. Author was New York's first Attorney General, chief justice of the New York Supreme Court, a member of the Continental Congress, and later a Representative in the first four years of the United States Congress. Benson also was a founder and the first president of the New-York Historical Society. Howes B-360.