dueling (6 resultados)

Booklet. Condición: Near Fine. Illustrated by Drawings Ilustrador. 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Jill Dueling Ilustrador. 182 pp, index, illustrations. Light corner wear. Remainder marks bottom edge.

Condición: New.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 42 pp. plus one page of publisher's advertisements. Original self-wrappers, stitched. Stamp of Providence Library on front wrapper. Small nicks in front wrapper, edges worn, open tear in lower margin of pp. 35/36. Toned throughout, unevenly in front wrapper and lower outer corner of first several leaves. Good to very good, untrimmed. The propsectus and first issue of Noah Worcester's FRIEND OF PEACE quarterly journal, which ran to 1827. Worcester (1758-1837) was a Revolutionary War veteran and Unitarian Congregationalist pastor who helped lay the foundation for American peace movements with his 1814 tract, A SOLEMN REVIEW OF THE CUSTOM OF WAR. Sabin 105253.

Pamphlet removed 81pp. Some rears and chips at edges and spine, and title page partially separated. Some moderate foxing and aging, and a couple of pages have folds. Otherwise in good shape. With one shot, Hunter killed Miller in Chester, Pennsylvania for publishing a letter that called him a coward. While Hunter offered Miller a chance to retract the statements before the duel, Miller refused. Both fired shots at almost the same instant, but it was Hunterâs round that found its mark. This pamphlet also provides some observations on the custom of dueling, and its affect on society.

Leatherbound. Condición: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 270. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1920 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: French Pages: 270.