Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of An American Woman
Willard, Frances E.
From Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 26 February 2018
From Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 26 February 2018
About this Item
Big beautiful book with highly decorated green cloth boards - front has silver gilt titling and decorations and gold gilt globes, along with black line drawing of homestead, all stamped. Spine has silver gilt water lily, gold gilt title box. Rear has blindstamped publishers device. Large book but still very tight, square and totally free of markings inside. End papers are a beautiful pale green scene of water lilies. Multiple illustrations incluidng a tissued guarded, steel-cut engraved frontispiece of the author with a facsimile inscription and signature below; five tissue guarded photogravure plates; seven reproductions of photographs and aquarelles; two full color chromolithographic plates, one double-page; folding facsimile letter on blue paper; and numerous other illustrations. Introduction by Hannah Whitall Smith: "How this story came to be told is as follows: As President for nearly ten years of the.National Woman's Christian Temperance Union.Frances E. Willard has won a love and loyalty that no other woman.has ever before possessed. It was natural that the many members of this widespread organization.should desire to read the story of her life, and for some time she has been besieged with requests to write her own biography" Now protected in an archival quality mylar sleeve. Seller Inventory # blb01414
Bibliographic Details
Title: Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography ...
Publisher: Women's Temperance Publication Association / H.J. Smith - Chicago
Publication Date: 1889
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
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