John heaton elbridge brooks (3 risultati)

HC. 319pp good+, decorated light brown cloth (hardcover) clean and tight. B&W illustrations (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. "PREFACE: If that land only is happy which has no history, then has Vermont been most unfortunate. In the brief period since white men first made their homes within sight of the Green Mountains, their lives have been menaced by savages, their lands coveted by robbers clothed with law and power, their families driven forth in terror when invading armies came among them, while the decisive battles of three great wars were fought on the lake of their glowing sunsets. Their State was the first ad mitted to the Union, after a forty years' struggle for its rights which happily has had no parallel in this country. And when, years later, slavery was crushed and the Union saved in the cruel war whose wounds time has not yet healed, no soldiers of the North won so great glory or paid for it so heavy a price in suffering and in loss as did the grandsons of the Green Mountain Boys. Poets, romancists and historians who have caught their inspiration from Vermont's annals have confined their attention to the eighteenth century, as if after those years of storm there was no more to tell. But tales of war are not the only ones worth hearing. The record of a century of Statehood, with its peaceful victories and industrial accomplishments, the life of its people and the part they have played in the vaster history of the Republic this as well as the old stirring days of war and outlawry, must be studied if one would know what claim the Fourteenth State has upon the gratitude and respect of the country." THIS volume has many condition issues, but appears complete and is filled with interesting information that cannot be found elsewhere.! Hard cover edition. 319 pages. Dimensions: 5.75" by 8.5". Published by D. Lothrop Company, Boston. 1st printing, 1889. B&W illustrations. Brown binding. Cover defect(s): Some fading. Some scratches/scuffing. Moderate corner/edge damage. Some staining/marking/writing/stickers. Some spine cover damage. Page defect(s): Some writing. Some dog eared pages. Some loose pages. Some creasing/wrinkling. Some page yellowing. 2.5 Pound Media Shipping Rate with Multiple Product Orders. (Min Shipping Rate 1 Pound per Order). Order More and SAVE! Genre(s): History / Retrospectives / Education-Secondary / English.…

Hardcover. 8vo. Published by D. Lothrop Company, Boston, MA. 1889. 319 pgs. Illustrated. Bound in decorated cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. If that land only is happy which has no history, then has Vermont been most unfortunate. In the brief period since white men first made their homes within sight of the Green Mountains, their lives have been menaced by savages, their lands coveted by robbers clothed with law and power, their families driven forth in terror when invading armies came among them, while the decisive battles of three great wars were fought on the lake of their glowing sunsets. Their State was the first ad mitted to the Union, after a forty years' struggle for its rights which happily has had no parallel in this country. And when, years later, slavery was crushed and the Union saved in the cruel war whose wounds time has not yet healed, no soldiers of the North won so great glory or paid for it so heavy a price in suffering and in loss as did the grandsons of the Green Mountain Boys. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…