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THE LIFE, SPEECHES, AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF: JAMES A. GARFIELD: Twentieth President of the United States Including an Account of His Assassination, Lingering Pain, Death, and Burial. By Russell H. Conwell. Introduction by John D. Long, Governor of Massachusetts. Portland Maine: George Stinson and Company, 1882. First edition, SECOND printing. 1882 date printed to the title page. The first printing was published in 1881. Illustrated with two steel engraved plates, one a portrait of James A. Garfield and the other a portrait of his wife. Seventeen additional quality illustrated plates including a depiction of the assassination. A comprehensive life, and political career biography. A sturdily preserved, and quite usable antiquarian book. A few upper page corner tips creased, offset tanning to the end-papers and to one internal page, pages slightly age-toned and lightly foxed, inner hinges starting--still holding soundly, some rub-wear to the upper and lower spine edges, lower shelf-edges, spine folds, and fore-edges, former damped stain to the lower rear cover, thumb-print sized rub spot to the front cover, else about good, fairly tight and sound in dark-brown linen with darker-brown embossed decorative patterns and titles to the front cover and with gilt embossed titles and darker-brown decorative embossed panel to the spine, brown and yellow headband and tail-band. Octavo; 384 pages. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT VINTAGE HISTORY BOOKS THANKS!