[Mormon Interest] [Parmelee Traveling Library] Anti-Slavery Days : A Sketch of the Struggle Which Ended in the Abolition of Slavery in the United States

CLARKE, James Freeman

Verlag: John W. Lovell Company, New York, NY, 1883

Beschreibung

A copy of the first printing and originally published in wraps, this copy finds itself in a contemporary, "Parmelee Library Edition" binding (aka "University of the Traveling Library") and with two rubber stamps - "George F. Wright / Logan, Utah / June 27, 1890" on the ffep, and "Read by G.F. Wright / Logan, Utah" at the foot of terminal text leaf. Mr. George F. Wright - possibly a Scottish Mormon living in Logan, just north of Brigham City - has also written his name in black cursive ink onto the "Property Of" page. Rivet-bound black cloth over boards with title blind stamped onto upper cover, 12mo size (7-1/8 inches tall), pp. 223 [224 - blank], colored endpapers, sprinkled edges, original sewn-in bookmark detached but present. Volume w. wear to covers and spine ends, minor toning and few creases to text, else unmarked throughout. "The H. Parmelee Library Company was founded in Iowa in 1882. It developed a rotating "package" collection which it called the University of the Traveling Library. The company relocated to Chicago in 1898 where it continued to market its rotating package library as a way of providing "A Thoroughly Equipped and Permanent Library In every Town and Hamlet in America." The Library History Buff. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3059

Bibliografische Details

Titel: [Mormon Interest] [Parmelee Traveling ...

Verlag: John W. Lovell Company, New York, NY

Erscheinungsdatum: 1883

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: First Edition, First Printing.