Author: Freeman Hunt, ed
Title: Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review: Volume 33 (July-December 1855)
Description: New York, Freeman Hunt, 1855. 1st Edition. Leather. 784p. Ex-library, REBOUND. A hardcover book that has been rebound in brown cloth. Pages toned and lightly foxed with age. Library stamps on endpapers and title page, but otherwise, text unmarked and binding tight. A good, sturdy reading copy. Volume 33 of this journal of commerce, agriculture, banking, and business in 19th-century America. The monthly issues span July through December 1855. This volume of the magazine features an essay on the economic and political relationship between the U.S. and China, and an editorial on the employment of women in retail establishments. At the end of each issue is a section of book reviews -- included are short reviews of MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM by Frederick Douglass; TEVERINO by George Sand (the first American edition of the novel); THE CONSCRIPT by Alexandre Dumas; MAUD by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; and WESTWARD HO! by Charles Kingsley. Fair .

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