Recollections of a Busy Life. A New Edition with a Memoir of Mr. Greeley's Later Years and Death
1873rif. 11666New York: The Tribune Association. Fair with no dust jacket. 1873. First Thus. Hardcover. Ex-library Riwaka Library a small 19th century provincial New Zealand library Riwaka is situated 5km from Motueka in the upper part of New Zealand's South Island. Rebound in late 19th Century half-calf library binding. Cloth lifting from boards. Hinges broken. Damp wrinkles to endpapers. One leaf nearly detached. A 1" tear to frontispiece. Creasing to frontispiece. Large 5" tear to one leaf. ; Uncommon in this edition. xv 1 17-624 pages frontispiece facsimile letter 2 plates 5 in-text illustrations an appendix of lxiii 1 pages. Lacking the half-title page. The appendix is found between pages 430 and 431 i.e. it precedes the section titled "Miscellanies". Half-calf binding. "The 'Recollections' as prepared by Mr. Greeley originally for a newspaper are in no full sense of the word an autobiography. Many incidents of his life he preferred or was obliged to leave unmentioned; and certain slight memoranda of his life subsequent to the period at which his own 'Recollections' close may have a value to the reader of this volume." - from the Appendix. Greeley was an editor of the New York Tribune. Selected contents: Adieu to New Hampshire; A Year by Lake Erie; My First Experiences in New York; Log-Cabin Days; Socialism; Margaret Fuller; Beggars and Borrowers; The Great Senators - The Compromise of 1850; The Slavery Controversy; My Farm; Two Days in Jail; A Ride across the Plains; The Rocky Mountains - The Great Basin; Utah - Nevada; The Sierra Nevada - The Yosemite - The Big Trees; Secession - How Confronted; Abraham Lincoln; Jefferson Davis; Literature as a Vocation; Poets and Poetry; Reforms and Reformers. ; Ex-Library; 8vo . The Tribune Association hardcover
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