Author: CARPENTER, Frank G.
Title: Carp's Washington
Description: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1960. Hardcover. Edited by Frances Carpenter. Introduction by Cleveland Amory. 8vo. Red cloth spine with silver lettering and red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 314pp, (2pp). Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. A tight and lovely first edition of this (to cite front jacket panel) "spirited account of certain somewhat scandalous goings-on in the city of Presidents Arthur and Cleveland, with unrestrained comment on the curiosities, characters & cranks of Capitol Hill." Special front flyleaf bookplate "From Ralph Geoffrey Newman to the Civil War Round Table of Chicago. .

Keywords: Americana


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