Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. First Edition. First Printing Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and a gilt seal on the front board. An octavo measuring 8 3/4 by 5 3/4 inches. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with three short closed tears to the upper edge of the spine area with related creasing and light rubbing and with rubbing and flecking of the colors at the lower corners of the spine area and at the fore corners of the front panel. 545 pages including an index.

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Bookseller: Town's End Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TB28661
Title: Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty.
Author: Malone, Dumas
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1962

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....