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Advice & Consent: Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork and the Intriguing History of the Supreme Court's Nomination Battles
by SIMON, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0915765985
- ISBN 13
- 9780915765980
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Washington, DC: National Press Books, 2002. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 328pp. Fine/fine. Tight and handsome later printing, with a fine red-edged bookplate on the title page boldly signed and inscribed by the Democratic U.S. senator and presidential candidate (1928-2003): "To Nancy -- / With my best / wishes / Paul Simon / 9-28-02.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39330
- Title
- Advice & Consent: Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork and the Intriguing History of the Supreme Court's Nomination Battles
- Author
- SIMON, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0915765985
- ISBN 13
- 9780915765980
- Publisher
- National Press Books
- Place of Publication
- Washington, DC
- Date Published
- 2002
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Americana;
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- Tight
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- Inscribed
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- Jacket
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