Riverside Biographical Series: Jackson, Eads, Franklin, Cooper, Jefferson, Penn, Grant, Marshall, Lewis, Clark, Hamilton, Irving, Jones, Douglas, Champlain [14 volumes, complete]

by Brown, How, More, Raymond, Merwin, Hodges, Allen, Thayer, Lighton, Conant, Boynton, Hapgood, Sedgwick

$250 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · In dust jacket

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900. Fourteen volumes, all that were issued (as far as we can tell) of this series of biographical sketches intended for students. More were planned, according to the notices in each book, but seem not to have been issued in this form. The volumes are: (1900) W. G. Brown: Andrew Jackson; Lois How: James B. Eads; P. E. More: Benjamin Franklin; R. W. Raymond: Peter Cooper; (1901) H. C. Merwin: Thomas Jefferson; George Hodges: William Penn; (1901, first editions) Walter Allen: Ulysses S. Grant; James B. Thayer: John Marshall; W. R. Lighton: Lewis and Clark; C. A. Conant: Alexander Hamilton; H. W. Boynton: Washington Irving; H. Hapgood: Paul Jones; (1902, first editions) W. G. Brown: Stephen A. Douglas; H. D. Sedgwick Jr.: Samuel de Champlain. These are the slightly cheaper school edition , with half-tone portraits in each. Small hardcovers, full brick-red cloth, black titling. Light general wear, minor cloth bubbling or page tanning to a few volumes; texts clean; about 110-160 pages per volume.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4 by 6 .

• Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
• Year: 1900
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: Hardcover

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