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Author	Welch, F. G. (Fletcher G.)
Title	That convention, or, Five days a politician / by F.G.W., et al. ; profusely illustrated by Frank Beard.
Publication Info.	New York ; Chicago : F.G. Welch, 1872 (New York : Taylor & Barwood).

Location	Call No.	Status
Closed Stack	324.273 W CS	ASK AT CIRCULATION DESK

Description	vii, [8],184 p., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.
Note	A humorous account of the Cincinnati Convention which nominated Horace Greeley for President in 1872.
	Includes Mark Twain's The champion chirography of the modern Cincinnatus, p. 147-155, reprinted from Roughing it.
	Binding: publisher's cloth; green; front cover and spine stamped in gold; blind-stamped borders; coated brown end-papers.
Local Note	Libary copy in original binding.
Subject	Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872.
	Liberal Republican Party. National Convention (Cincinnati : 1872) -- Humor.
Genre or Form	Contemporary bindings (Binding) -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1872.
	Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- England -- London -- 1872.
Added Author	Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Champion chirography of the modern Cincinnatus.
	Beard, Frank, 1842-1905, illustrator.
	Welch, F. G. (Fletcher G.), publisher.
	Taylor & Barwood, printer.
Added Title	Five days a politician

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