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JEFFERSON'S NEPHEWS; A FRONTIER TRAGEDY.
Merrill, Boynton, Jr., 1925-2012. [Isham Lewis; Lilburn Lewis; Slave George Lewis, 1794-1811.]
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1987., 1987
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Da: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 5 stelleCondizione: Usato
EUR 8,76
EUR 6,47 spedizioneSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Reprint of the second edition with a new Preface. xvi, 462 pages. Paperback: H 23.5cm x L 15.25cm. Red paper covers lightly rubbed, slight color fading to spine, slight bumping and wear to front cover's bottom fore-edge corner. Non-authorial ink gift inscription for Christmas 1993 on half-title page. Interior pages are otherwise… bright and clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. A very good+ copy. Highly regarded scholarly examination of the tragedy surrounding two of Thomas Jefferson's nephews, Isham Lewis and Lilburn Lewis, who conspired to murder their slave George in 1811. The book was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in History in 1976 by its original publisher Princeton University Press. ISBN 0813101735.
