Horace Greeley, Recollections of a Busy Life…1st ed.

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With this book, Horace Greeley wrote one of the most important autobiographies of the 19th Century. 

Greeley was a prolific editor, staunch anti slavery advocate, publisher, and politician. He founded the unprecedentedly successful New York Tribune and championed many causes and reforms. Greeley supported slum-dwellers, women’s rights, and labor. He opposed the Mexican War and capital punishment. His most persistent crusade was for the abolition of slavery. His wide-ranging memoirs are quite valuable.

Publisher’s pebbled green cloth with bright gilt lettering to spine, gilt centerpiece to front cover and centerpiece in blind to rear cover. Top edge brown as tinted. Clean and bright full-page illustrations with tissue guards. Spine ends lightly rubbed; top edge tint lightly flaking. A tight clean first edition. Near fine.

Horace Greeley. RECOLLECTIONS OF A BUSY LIFE: INCLUDING REMINISCENCES OF AMERICAN POLITICS AND POLITICIANS, FROM THE OPENING OF THE MISSOURI CONTEST TO THE DOWNFALL OF SLAVERY…New York: 1868, J. B. Ford & Co. 624p., quatro; Sabin 28491.