Garner james w editor (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1915 1st Edition. Very Good Hardback Book in No Dust Jacket. A square, tight and clean copy except for remnants of small price sticker on front facing endpaper. 125pp. Sm4to. (AL).

Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth. 125pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Especially tight, clean first edition.

Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth. 125pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Tight, clean first edition with bright gilt.

Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering. 125pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. A tight and quite attractive first edition, with gilt gleaming -- and an intriguing copy, for the front flyleaf is boldly inscribed in black ink: "Sarah Bond Hanley / To / Adlai E. Stevenson II / December 18, 1951." Hanley (1865-1959) was an Illinois state legislator active in Democratic politics and chairman of the 1930 Democratic State Convention in 1930, and Stevenson (1900-65) was of course the Illinois governor who at this time was being spoken of as the next Democratic presidential candidate -- which happened the following year and again in 1956, though he lost both times to Dwight D. Eisenhower. An interesting association copy, for Stevenson's grandfather, Adlai E. Stevenson I (1835-1914, vice president under Cleveland) contributes one lengthy chapter and is pictured in this volume, and his great-grandfather Jesse Fell was a friend and colleague of Douglas's opponent, Abraham Lincoln.…