The Common School Journal for the Year 1842. Edited

by Horace Mann by Horace Mann

$4,500 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

Signed

Boston: Fowle and Capen, 1842. 8vo, iv, 390 pp. Old half calf, marbled boards, joints cracked, text block sound but quite foxed, especially at the front and back. Inscribed by the author and with the later signature of Mary C. Chapman on front pastedown. § Volume 4 of this series; this copy inscribed by Horace Mann: “C. Sumner from Horace Mann 1847.” Horace Mann inscriptions are uncommon and this is a superb association. “Charles Sumner

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