Cowan robert author (2 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 416 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

First Edition. Signed by author. Cowan, Robert G. The Admission of the 31st State by the 31st Congress: An Annotated Bibliography of Congressional Speeches upon the Admission of California. Los Angeles, [CA]: Torrez Press, 1962. First edition. 139 pp. Publisher's quarter cloth over boards, fine. Author's signature to front free end paper, otherwise internally clean. $75. * A bibliographical reference tracking the volatile congressional debates surrounding California's entry into the Union under the Compromise of 1850. Cowan provides detailed analytical collations and historical annotations for the printed speeches of senators and representatives, documenting how the legal and constitutional arguments over California's free-state constitution intersected with the national crisis over the expansion of slavery. Signed by author (illustrator). …