Author: Cloquet, M. Jules
Title: Recollections of the Private Life of Lafayette. Volume 1 Only
Description: New York, Leavitt, Lord and Co. Publisher, 1836. Cloth. Green pebbled cloth with ornamentation in blind and a gilt vase in the center front cover. 219 pp. With several illustrations, all present as called for. A biography of Lafayette written in epistolary form, describing his personal characteristics, his associations with friends, leaders and others, his time in prison, his opinions of the political and social turmoil in France, etc. Volume 1 ONLY of 2. GOOD condition. Ex-church library with a bookplate on the inside front cover. No other markings present. Minor fading, rubbing and soiling to the covers. Heavy fading to the spine. Cloth chipped and frayed at the spine tips, with some bumping and splitting at the corners. Interior cracked and beginning to separate at the half-title, with the text block also cracked at pages 156-57. Text block solid. Scattered minor to moderate foxing throughout, with minor dampstaining at the top edge. Endpapers rather foxed and browned. Good/No Jacket.

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