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Book Condition: Used Publisher's blue cloth, covers decoratively stamped in blind, spine titled in gilt. Soiling to fore-edge of front cover, spine e
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About Item: New York: Derby & Jackson, 1857. First edition. 406 pp. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, covers decoratively stamped in blind, spine titled in gilt. Soiling to fore-edge of front cover, spine ends worn, scattered foxing to text. First edition. 406 pp. 8vo. First edition of this history of American finance by George Francis Train. Train (1829-1904) was born in Boston, received an education in Massachusetts, and found work in a relative's shipping office in Boston. He went on to manage the company's offices in Liverpool and Melbourne, Australia, before embarking on a tour of Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Train became a proponent of streetcar lines in England and railroads in the American West, involved himself in numerous public issues, including the Fenian cause, and wrote several books. Train was a major supporter of women's rights, and provided financial backing for Susan B. Anthony's newspaper, THE REVOLUTION. Train was a candidate for the American presidency in 1872, joined the French… Read More
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