Cappon Lester J Editor (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. ***Please Read*** No marks on text - My shelf location - 60-f-13*.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good in a Good publisher's slipcase. First Edition, First Printing (1959). Two volumes complete: Vol. I (1777-1804), li, 288 pp.; Vol. II (1812-1826), viii, [289]-638 pp. Octavo. Bound in publisher's original rust-colored cloth with spines ruled in black, stamped with decorative gilt stars, and titled in bright gilt; UNC Press crests stamped in black on lower spines. Illustrated with frontispiece portraits, facsimile letters, and historic contemporary plates. Both volumes show tight, square bindings with clean cloth, bright gilt, sharp corners, and firm spine ends. Interiors are clean, bright, and unmarked, completely free of owner names, bookplates, or marginal notations. The original heavy paper-covered slipcase with printed pictorial labels on front and rear panels is structurally sound but shows evident wear, including edge rubbing, corner splitting/chipping, surface scuffing, and old transparent tape mends at the corners. In The Adams-Jefferson Letters, archivist and historian Lester J. Cappon compiles the complete, unabridged correspondence spanning nearly fifty years between Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Abigail Adams. Beginning during the revolutionary fervor of the Continental Congress in 1777, continuing through joint diplomatic missions in Europe, surviving the bitter partisan estrangement of the 1790s and the election of 1800, and culminating in their famous, reflective 1812-1826 retirement reconciliation orchestrated by Benjamin Rush, these 380 letters constitute the greatest intellectual dialogue between Founding Fathers in American history. Cappon provides extensive contextual introductions, detailed historical annotations, and comprehensive indexing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 690 pages. 9.75x6.50x2.00 inches. In Stock.