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For more than a quarter of a century, The Book
Shop in downtown Covina has been your source for fine used and antiquarian books. Whether you're interested in history, religion,
science fiction or art, you will find what you're looking for at The Book Shop.
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: Vol. I.
Frontispiece portrait of Joseph Warren. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1858. First edition. The first installment in Bancroft's
classic history of the American Revolution. An American historian and statesman, George Bancroft (1800-91) was prominent in
promoting secondary education both in his home state of Massachusetts and at the national level. During his tenure as
U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845. Inscribed and dated in the
year of publication by George Bancroft on a prefatory blank leaf. $250.00
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