Author: MONTGOMERY, H.
Title: The Life of Major General Zachary Taylor Twelfth President of the United States
Description: Chicago, The John C. Winston Company, n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Blue cloth with gilt, red and black lettering and decorative stamping and color plate to front board. xiv, 463pp. Very good. Front pastedown ownership signature; touch of mottling to rear board. Superb, tight later reprint edition (undated, but circa 1900) of this biography first published pre-presidency, perhaps as a campaign biography, in 1847 (Auburn, NY: J.C. Derby & Co.) and many times thereafter. This choice turn-of-the-century reprint bears a fine engraving tipped in as frontispiece: A steel-engraved head-and-shoulders portrait of Taylor in suit and tie with facsimile signature below, undated but likely mid-19th century vintage. Handsome and unusual copy. See Sabin 50141. .
Keywords: Presidential
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Title: The Life of Major General Zachary Taylor Twelfth President of the United States
Description: Chicago, The John C. Winston Company, n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Blue cloth with gilt, red and black lettering and decorative stamping and color plate to front board. xiv, 463pp. Very good. Front pastedown ownership signature; touch of mottling to rear board. Superb, tight later reprint edition (undated, but circa 1900) of this biography first published pre-presidency, perhaps as a campaign biography, in 1847 (Auburn, NY: J.C. Derby & Co.) and many times thereafter. This choice turn-of-the-century reprint bears a fine engraving tipped in as frontispiece: A steel-engraved head-and-shoulders portrait of Taylor in suit and tie with facsimile signature below, undated but likely mid-19th century vintage. Handsome and unusual copy. See Sabin 50141. .
Keywords: Presidential
Price: US$ 75.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 49387
- Book number: 49387
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