SALMON P. CHASE: A Biography By John Niven. New York: Oxford University Press, (1995). First edition, first printing. First printing number code sequence 1 through 9 to the copyright page. Illustrated with portrait photographs. Niven, a professor of American history, biographer, author, and editor of the papers of Chase, draws on expert knowledge and research for this comprehensive biography of the complex man who organized an antislavery movement and the Free Soil party, was Supreme Court Chief Justice, a two-time Senator, two-time governor of Ohio, was on Lincoln's war cabinet, campaigned for President, and more. Lower corner tips minutely bumped, else very nearly fine and firm in sand-yellow linen over red-clay boards with red-clay embossed titles to the spine, red-and-yellow headband and tail-band; in a price-clipped, else very nearly fine dust jacket. Octavo; 546 pages; notes; index. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!