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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Print on Demand. This book is a collection of speeches delivered by friends of James Sumner, a man who dedicated his life to the cause of social justice. Sumner was a prominent figure in the labor movement and the Greenback party, and he was known for his strong advocacy of workers' rights. The speeches in this book pay tribute to Sumner's life and work and explore the important issues that he championed, such as the need for an equitable distribution of wealth, the importance of political activism, and the value of education and self-improvement. Through these speeches, the author provides a glimpse into the life and work of a remarkable man who fought tirelessly for the betterment of society. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Hard cover. First edition. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 784 p. Belknap Press. Audience: General/trade. Very good in good dust jacket. book is almost like new in a good to very good jacket with light shelfwear edgewear and a few small tears and chips, no ownership marks First Printing.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Wear/tear to jacket with moderate loss to rear/spine. Gift inscription. Good binding and cover. Foxing to top page end. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

First Edition. First edition, large 8vo, pp. li, [3], 733, [1]; lexicon in double column; fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.

1968. (4to) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 733pp. Indices. The dust jacket is price-clipped and lightly edgeworn with a few small closed tears and a faint dampstain along the top inch of the back cover and back panel. "This book is a collection of English proverbs, sentences, and proverbial phrases from the Middle Ages. The material is drawn from an exhaustive examination of the surviving texts, mainly printed ones but some still in manuscript. Certain books written later than 1500, usually by authors who were born twenty years or so before the turn of the century, are included, and John Heywood, the first great assembler of English proverbs, is represented by the sayings he compiled". Time Period 15th Century. Locale: England. (Writing, Dictionaries, Language, Linguistics, Proverbs, Reference).

stiff wrappers. frontispiece (illustratore). 22x14cm, 52 pp, With a slip tipped-in: "Compliments of the Committee.William Murray, Secretary" Sumner [1831-1895] was Greenback party candidate for Governor of Massachusetts [1885]; Delegate to the Cincinatti conference of Greenback Party that founded the Union-Labor Party [1886]; Populist Party candidate for Attorney General [ [1894]. Original stiff wrappers. Corners heavily rubbed, Good.