Something Of Men I Have Known; With Some Papers Of A General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective

Published by A.C. McClurg & Co, Chicago, 1909

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Octavo, xii, 442pp. Green cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine and cover. Stated "Second Edition" on title page. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait of Stevenson, thin dampstain at top and bottom edge with no impact to portrait. Features 45 full-page illustrations of notable people mentioned in the text. Ownership blind stamp on the foreword. Notable wear to boards, some loss of white border on front panel. Inscribed by the author on a tipped-in signature plate, which reads: "Yours truly, A.E. Stevenson." Adlai Stevenson (1835-1914) served as the 23rd Vice President of the United States, in the second administration of Grover Cleveland. He ran for Vice President on the William Jennings Bryan ticket in 1900, but Bryan lost to William McKinley. Stevenson was the father of Lewis G. Stevenson, the Illinois Secretary of State (1914-1917) and his grandson, Adlai Stevenson II, who ran for President of the United States in 1952 and 1956.

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Title
Something Of Men I Have Known; With Some Papers Of A General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective
Author
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Publisher
A.C. McClurg & Co, Chicago
Publication year
1909
Condition
Very good
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Signed
Binding
Cloth
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Second edition of Something Of Men I Have Known by Vice President Adlai Stevenson, a presentation copy inscribed by Stevenson.
Edition
Second Edition.
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