Samuel Gridley Howe
New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. Pp. 283. Frontis. portrait. With a few photographic plates throughout. Appendices reprint Whittier's "The Hero," and "A Memorial Tribute" by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Index. Bound in three-quarter navy cloth over gray paper-covered boards, printed title label on spine. In the price-clipped dust jacket. Bookseller tag on front pastedown ("Collectors' Old Book Shop, Richmond, Virginia"); slight wear to edges of dust jacket. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #5091
Includes information on Howe's friendships with Thomas Carlyle, Horace Mann, Holmes, Charles Sumner and Edward Everett Hale, as well as his service in the Civil War. Dust jacket is now preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
Price: $25.00