JEFFERSON AND HIS TIMES BY DUMAS MALONE, 3 VOLUMES SIGNED, 2 FIRST EDITIONS – 6 VOLUMES PLUS ONE MORE BOOK

Inventory #: 22-808 - $450.00

Boston. Little, Brown and Company. 6 volumes in Near Fine condition, each with issued dust jacket. 1948 through 1977. Volume 1 is a 16^th printing, Volume 2 is an 10^th printing, Volume 3 is signed, and is a 5^th printing, Volume 4 is signed and is a 2^nd printing, Volume 5 is a 1^st edition and Volume 6 is signed and a 1^st edition. No markings but each volume has an owners bookplate. All volumes are in unread condition. Also included is a book titled Jefferson’s English Crisis.

Malone’s masterwork is Jefferson and His Time, a comprehensive, six-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson, consisting of: Jefferson the Virginian (1948); Jefferson and the Rights of Man (1951); Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty (1962); Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801–1805 (1970); Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805–1809 (1974); and The Sage of Monticello (1981). Malone was educated at Emory and Yale universities. He taught at Yale, Columbia, and the University of Virginia, where he was the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History. He edited the Dictionary of American Biography from 1929 to 1936 and the Political Science Quarterly from 1953 to 1958 and served as director of the Harvard University Press from 1936 to 1943.