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• Choate Rufus

Seller Description: 8vo, hardcover. Good condition in vg dj. Appx. 25 pages underlining. Dust jacket and covers unworn, binding square and tight. 328 pp. See More Details

Seller Description: Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. See More Details

Seller Description: New. See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good. First edition. Very good minus general wear along edges and at corners. See More Details

Seller Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Very slight scrape on the paper label on the front board, still fine in a slightly soiled, very good plus dustwrapper with tiny nicks and tears, particularly at the spine ends. Very scarce in jacket. See More Details

Seller Description: Good plus or better, light general wear, lightly soiled. Corners lightly bumped. Int hinge split at half-title. See More Details

Seller Description: Good + No Jacket. Book Biography and speeches of Rufus Choate, b. 1799; d. 1859, Massachusetts native, and member of the Massachusetts Bar. Inner hinges cracked; exterior soils and light wear. Previous owner's embossed stamp on ffep. See More Details

Seller Description: Good. First Edition. 1884 Hardcover. NOT ex-Library. First edition. No former owner's name or marks (except erased old bookstore info). B & W illustrations with tissue. Inside hinge papers are partially cracked. Dark olive green cloth cover, stamped black borders, gold lettering. Corners are lightly rubbed, spine ends have tiny tears and rubs. See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good with no dust jacket. Rufus Cohate (1799-1859) was an Massachusetts orator, lawyer and U.S. Senator (1841). He was one of the pre-eminent orators of his day, and was a well-known trial lawyer who often took the side of persecuted or unpopular figures. He was was first aligned with the Republican party, but later switched to the Whigs. In his politics, he supported the Compromise of 1850 even though he did not support slavery, and he also opposed the annexation of Texas. By all ... See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good. Binding slightly cocked, has letter B on spine. See More Details

Seller Description: Good. Second edition. Cloth cover with gilt writing on spine shows moderate wear and tear, some loss at the foot of the backstrip, edgeworn corners, rubbing and soiling. Former owner's signature on blank page facing half title page, dated 1871. Minor soiling and staining to edges. Pages are lightly tanned but clean, text is intact and unmarred. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled. See More Details

Seller Description: Fair. Fair hardcover. No DJ. Ex-Library with usual markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Slightly tanned. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing and bumped corners. Back strip has edge tears. Front hinge cracked but binding still intact. All pages present and still very readable.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! See More Details

Seller Description: Good. 1860 Hardcover. Ex-Library. Text is clean, Binding is strong. Inside hinge papers are cracked. Pebbled cloth cover is very worn, rubbed corners and edges with small holes in the cloth on the edges of spine, stamped borders. See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Original publisher's textured burgundy cloth, bronze spine lettering, pale yellow endpapers. A few light surface marks to cloth, modestly rubbed extremities, bottom corners a bit bumped. Approx. 1" cloth separation along rear joint. 522 pp., double frontis. w/ engraved portrait and sample MS. Interior is clean, slightly toned. See More Details

Seller Description: Good. First edition, 1860. Original Maroon ribbed cloth, rubbed and worn at edges and corners, else good+. 522 pages with index. Engraved frontispiece portrait and lithographed facsimile autograph letter with tissue guard, foxed. Elegant former owner signature dated November 29, 1859-perhaps indicating a close relationship to the publication. Initials appear to be "S. A. Grant L. E. S.". Request photograph if you are interested. Published a year after Choate's death, this set of reminiscences ... See More Details

Seller Description: New York 1860 Mason Brothers. Hardcover. Octavo, 522p., original pale violet cloth. Nineteenth century bookplate (C. B. Thomas) and signed by Thomas in 1860. Good, slight foxing and toning, spine faded to light to light tan. See More Details

Seller Description: New. See More Details