The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896.
Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, [1896]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Half burgundy calf with gilt spine lettering and black cloth with silver pictorial gilt. 630pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, marbled page edges. Very good. Tiny bit rough at head of spine only -- else tight and internally fine and bright. Item #45488
Handsome first edition, with the special ornate tipped-in "Presented to" leaf (silver, blue and gilt leaf on bright white stock) preceding half-title page left blank. Interesting account of Bryan's quest for the presidency, "Together With a Collection of His Speeches and a Biographical Sketch by His Wife."
Price: $100.00
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