Letters, Essays and Biographical Sketches
Saratoga Springs, New York: The Saratogian Print, 1907. Half-Leather. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2330990
Presentation copy inscribed to Rose W. Eastman, who proofread the book's original manuscript. Joints just beginning to separate along spine head, boards a bit rubbed.
vi, [2], 387 pp. Leather spine and corners, marbled paper over boards, gilt titles and rules, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. A collection of essays and other short pieces, many of which originally appeared in Courier and Freeman, a Potsdam, New York newspaper. Includes photographic portraits and other illustrations. Contents include: Wherein Lies Greatness?; Checker Playing; A 'Sitting' with Dr. Henry Slade; Flag Presentation; Hon. Jonah Sanford; Was Conkling Invited?; Permelia S. Brooks; The Sewers and Board of Trustees; License or No-License?; Prayer in War; Henry Gurley Brooks; Shooting Does; Hon William A. Dart; Aching for War; Elliott Fay; Will War Ever Cease?; Mother; On the Lawn with the Birds; Hon. George Z. Erwin; Oyster Farming; Thomas S. Clarkson; Athens Versus Bull Dogs; Hon. Charles O. Tappan; Hon. Erasmus D. Brooks; 'Peel' Willey, Examination of; Hon. John G. McIntyre; Daniel Webster. Power of Magnificent Presence; Judge Leslie W. Russell; Japan and Russia. Is War a Divine Method?; The Spider and Man; A Mexican Bull Fight; Some Sketches of California; Santa Catalina Island; Ascent of Mount Lowe; A Visit to the Lick Observatory, &c.; George S. Wright; Lincoln's Gettysburg Address; Dr. Reynold M. Kirby; Abbie S. Landers; The Farmer Boys of Fifty Years Ago and Now; Trusts and Combinations.
Price: $35.00