JEFFERSON IN POWER BY CLAUDE G. BOWERS 1936 FINE LEATHER BOUND FIRST EDITION

JEFFERSON IN POWER BY CLAUDE G. BOWERS 1936 FINE LEATHER BOUND FIRST EDITION

£275.00

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[BOWERS, Claude G.]. Jefferson in Power: The Death Struggle of the Federalists. Boston: Published by Houghton Mifflin company, 1936.

First edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (230 x 145 x 45 mm). Pp. xix, (3), 538. English text. Bound in handsome half leather by Bennett of New York. Spine gilt. Marbled paper-covered boards. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Half-title present. Portrait frontispiece. Title-page device. Illustrated throughout. Rear index. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure, the hinges intact. Tiny amount of rubbing to the points. Contents immaculate. Private owner bookplate to fep. A beautiful copy.

Notes: A handsome first edition copy. A study of the Presidency of Thomas Jefferson. Bowers who was President Franklin D. Roosevelt's ambassador to Spain and Chile highlights the major events of the period to include the Louisiana Purchase, Aaron Burr's treason trial and the end of the Federalist Party in the country's history.