Author: PAINE, THOMAS
Title: Selected Writings of Thomas Paine: Common Sense, the American Crisis and the Age of Reason
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Leather. Playing a significant role in fomenting the American Revolution, Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" appeared in 1775-1776 in pamphlet form. It is offered here in a little fancier Franklin Library edition, along with two additional of Paine's writings, edited by Moncure Daniel Conway. An entry in the publisher's 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series, issued in conjunction with the Bicentennial of the American Revolution. One of an unspecified number in this limited edition. --- Bound in rich full red bonded leather covers with two raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality laid papers. Vivid red silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon bookmark. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- An excellent copy but with a very faint lower cover corner bump and a few shallow indentations to fore-edges of covers; otherwise bright, crisp and probably unread.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (10), 386 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>American History & Politics >>Fine Bindings
Title: Selected Writings of Thomas Paine: Common Sense, the American Crisis and the Age of Reason
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Leather. Playing a significant role in fomenting the American Revolution, Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" appeared in 1775-1776 in pamphlet form. It is offered here in a little fancier Franklin Library edition, along with two additional of Paine's writings, edited by Moncure Daniel Conway. An entry in the publisher's 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series, issued in conjunction with the Bicentennial of the American Revolution. One of an unspecified number in this limited edition. --- Bound in rich full red bonded leather covers with two raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality laid papers. Vivid red silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon bookmark. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- An excellent copy but with a very faint lower cover corner bump and a few shallow indentations to fore-edges of covers; otherwise bright, crisp and probably unread.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (10), 386 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>American History & Politics >>Fine Bindings
Price: US$ 62.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 86881
- Book number: 86881