SOLD AS A GROUP OF SIX VOLUMES - an incomplete set as Carroll and Ashworth's posthumously completed Volume VII "First in Peace" is not present. All hardcover uniformly bound in blue cloth - no slipcases, no dust jackets. With endpaper maps and b/w plates on unpaged leaves. Some rubbing to boards with a few light stains; slight scuffing at spine ends and board corners; spines' gilt stamping remains bright. Toning/foxing to text block edges. A few intrusions of light foxing to page margins but overall interior leaves remain quite clean. Bindings are firm. *** GEORGE WASHINGTON; A BIOGRAPHY . . . VOLUME ONE: YOUNG WASHINGTON. NY: Scribner's, 1948. First edition (per publisher's "A" letter code and Scribner seal upon copyright page). xxviii, 549 pages. *** GEORGE WASHINGTON; A BIOGRAPHY . . . VOLUME TWO: YOUNG WASHINGTON. NY: Scribner's, 1948. First edition (per publisher's "A" letter code and Scribner seal upon copyright page). x, 464 pages. *** GEORGE WASHINGTON; A BIOGRAPHY . . . VOLUME THREE: PLANTER AND PATRIOT. NY: Scribner's, 1951. First edition (per publisher's "A" letter code and Scribner seal upon copyright page). xxx, 600 pages. *** GEORGE WASHINGTON; A BIOGRAPHY . . . VOLUME FOUR: LEADER OF THE REVOLUTION. NY: Scribner's, 1951. First edition (per publisher's "A" letter code and Scribner seal upon copyright page). x,736 pages. *** GEORGE WASHINGTON; A BIOGRAPHY . . . VOLUME FIVE: VICTORY WITH THE HELP OF FRANCE. NY: Scribner's, 1952. First edition (per publisher's "A" letter code and Scribner seal upon copyright page). xviii, 570 pages. *** GEORGE WASHINGTON; A BIOGRAPHY . . . VOLUME SIX: PATRIOT AND PRESIDENT. NY: Scribner's, 1954. First edition (per publisher's "A" letter code and Scribner seal upon copyright page). xlviii, 529 pages. With a Foreword "The Pen of Douglas Southall Freeman" (pages ix-xxxi) by Dumas Malone; Prefatory Note (pages xxxiii-xlv) by Mary Wells Ashworth. ***** Please note that set has an approximate shipping weight of 13.5 pounds (6.12 kg) and will require additional postage/insurance for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. Seller Inventory # JUL23DH-03641
Title: Six volume set. GEORGE WASHINGTON, A ...
Publisher: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [Scribner], 1948, 1951, 1952, and 1954.
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
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