Add this copy of Dear Preceptor: the Life and Times of Thomas Wentworth to cart. $13.98, good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Literature, Biogrophy, history) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
Add this copy of Dear Preceptor: the Life and Times of Thomas Wentworth to cart. $16.00, very good condition, Sold by Library Market rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Waynesville, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1963 by Houghton Mifflin.
Add this copy of Dear Preceptor: the Life and Times of Thomas Wentworth to cart. $20.00, very good condition, Sold by Hudson River Book Shoppe rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Waldwick, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1963 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps with light wear and minor nicks to the edges; interior clean and fresh. Stated first printing. Illustrated. Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism. During the Civil War, he served as colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first federally authorized black regiment, from 1862-1864. Following the war, Higginson devoted much of the rest of his life to fighting for the rights of freed people, women and other disfranchised peoples. Higginson was portrayed by Matthew Broderick in the film Glory.
Add this copy of Dear Preceptor: the Life and Times of Thomas Wentworth to cart. $25.00, very good condition, Sold by Main Street Fine Books, ABAA rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Galena, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1963 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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8vo. Grey cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. ix, 363pp. Frontispiece, decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Jacket slightly edgeworn and a tad rubbed. Tight, handsome first edition of this biography of the military and literary figure (1823-1911). Civil War buffs know him as colonel of the first Union negro army regiment, and in this context Robert W. Johannsen describes this as "An effective study of Higginson's life; the author places strong emphasis on Higginson's friendship with Emily Dickinson." Others know Higginson as writer, abolitionist and mainly the friend and editor of Dickinson. A lovely copy. NEVINS II, 99.
