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Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Fine. Later Printing. small, faint brown spot on slipcase Previous owner's signature in ink. Review copy w/ slip. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Americana, Revolutionary Era; Presidents. ISBN: 094045016x. ISBN/EAN: 9780940450165. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2337.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. 10th printing. Includes publisher's slipcase, lacks insert. Small blemish on front slipcase panel, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1984 Hard Cover. 1600 pp. Original blue cloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in. At the moment of our nation's birth, Thomas Jefferson defined the issues that still direct our political life. Displaying his extraordinary variety of interests and powerful and precise style, Jefferson's writings are an invaluable and incisive record of the landscape, inhabitants, life, and daily customs of America in the Revolutionary and early national eras. This book is the most comprehensive one-volume selection of Jefferson ever published. It contains such famous works as "Autobiography" and "Notes on the State of Virginia." A series of addresses, 287 letters, and public and private writings - including the original and revised drafts of the Declaration of Independence - round out the collection, painting not only a portrait of the early days of America but of one of the most influential and controversial figures in our nation's history. This edition is part of the Library of America series, published by a non-profit organization whose goal is to keep classic works of American literature and history in print as a way of preserving cultural heritage.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Fourteenth Printing. A very nice copy. Text in mint/unmarked condition. Slipcase shows some wear. Your Satisfaction Guaranteed. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available.

Condition: Very good. New York, NY: The Library of America, (1984)., (1984). Very good. - Octavo, dark blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine in a cream-colored slipcase. 1600 pages plus colophon, with a dark blue silk bookmark. With a large folding map in a rear pocket. The slipcase is lightly soiled. Fine, in a very good slipcase. Second printing. The notes for this volume were written by Merrill D. Peterson who also selected the texts.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Library of America number 15. Fifteenth printing. Fine in a fine slipcase. Blue cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Sewn-in ribbon bookmark.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Full leather bindings, with gilt edges, lettering and decorations. Sewn-in bookmark. Light wear to gilt edges. Volume I only.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Stated First Printing. 5 x 8 inches. 1600 pages with folded map in pocket at rear. Condition of the book is Very Good+; Looks new on all points. Slipcase is Very Good; a few small scuff marks and stains, no splits. STK.

First printing of this edition. Thick 12mo. (10), 1600 pp. Map, in-text vignettes, tables, folding map in pocket at rear. Navy cloth, gilt spine title, illustrated dust jacket (tape repair to bottom edge of front panel). Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Later printing. Octavo. 1,600pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Library of America, Volume 17.

18th impression. 8vo. Prelims. + 1600pp. + adverts. Small crease to head corners of pp.1531-1538. Original blue cloth with black title patch lettered in gilt to spine. In slipcase. Library of America 15. ISBN 094045016X US$12.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. New condition dark blue cloth boards with gold spine lettering within a black and gold block border, contained in a new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Chronology; Note on the Texts; Notes and Index. Illustrated with two-color front and rear endpaper decorations. Also includes a bound-into-the-volume matching blue satin ribbon page marker. "This is the most comprehensive selection ever published of the writings of our third president and foremost spokesman for democracy. Jefferson, a brilliant political thinker, is perhaps best known for the Declaration of Independence, but he was a man of extraordinarily wide interests. Here along with his public papers are pieces on science, archaeology, architecture, gardening, and literature; travel journals; first-hand accounts of the French Revolution; fascinating descriptions of life in early America, including the complete Notes on the State of Virginia; and more than 250 brilliant and urbane letters to such men as Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, Lafayette, Madison, and John Adams. For a renewed sense of the possibility that the United States represented to its founders, this is a remarkable and indispensable book. "Gives the reader a chance to assess the power of the man's pen and, by this standard, his character and mind." - The New York Times, from the rear outer jacket. "Third President of the United States, author of the Declaration of Independence, spokesman for democracy and the republic, Thomas Jefferson had an extraordinry variety of speculative interest. These are now fully represented in the most comprehensive testimony to his greatness ever to appear in a single volume. He was exceptionally controversial in his own time, and many of his ideas remain the subject of national debate. In his arguments for a system of general education, for local rather than central authority, for caution in international affairs, for religious and intellectual freedom, and for economic and social justice, Jefferson defined, at the moment of the nation's formation, the issues that still direct our political life. This volume, with its broad selection of texts spanning Jefferson's long career, will give the reader the opportunity to reassess one of our most influential presidents. His "First Inaugural Address" is a resounding statement of faith in a democracy of enlightened people. His Notes on the State of Virginia, and his letters to political allies, scientific colleagues, family members, and friends, are an invaluable record of the landscape, inhabitants, life, and daily customs of America in the Revolutionary and early national eras. They also, at times, become fervent and witty rejoinders to European misrepresentations of the American scene. Extensively read (his library of 10,000 volumes became the foundation of the Library of Congress) and widely traveled (as American minister in Paris at the time of the French Revolution he reported its events with informed sympathy), Jefferson wrote with ease and spontaneity about architecture (he helped plan the nation's capital), gardening, religion, literature, botany, education (he founded the University of Virginia), the habits of his fellow citizens, and, of course, his beloved Monticello. Jefferson's prose has an energy, clarity, and charming off-handedness, consistent with his conviction that style in writing should impose no barrier between the most educated and the most common reader. For those who want a renewed sense of the opportunity for human freedom that the United States represented to its founders, this is an indispensable book." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition, sixth printing. Dark blue linen binding in cream-colored, gilt-decorated slipcase. Ribbon marker. 1600 pp. Fine in fine slipcase.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. An unused volume in a very good slipcase . Ribbon Marker . Chronology . Notes On The Texts . Notes . Merrill Peterson wrote the notes and made the selections for this book . In early editions of his NOTES ON VIRGINIA Thomas Jefferson included his father's map of Virginia . A copy of that map is included in a pocket on the back board of this book --folded but not attached to the pastedown .

Condition: new.