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1st Edition hardcover in green buckram covered boards with negligible surface soil. Spine ends brushed, lower tips bumped but not rubbed, upper tips remain sharp. 319pp text is untrimmed, age-toned, B/W illustrations on glossy pp. No writing or highlighting inside. B/W Frontispiece. Original dj is clipped, has some surface wear and soil, some loss at the head of the front flap, lined with white paper, displays well in new mylar. A 19th century paradox comes to life in this witty and original biography of Henry Burgh. The founder of the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Aristocrat and dilettante, educated to a taste for art and the polka, Henry Burgh suddenly put behind his cosmopolitan pleasures to devote the later third of his life to what most people called a fanatical crusade on behalf of abused animals. He was quite capable of using mercilessly on a driver the very whip the driver had but a moment before been using on a horse. Top hat and cane irreproachable, his mien imperturbable, he compelled hapless aldermen and city fathers to follow him through the blood and muck of filthy slaughter houses. He at last emerges from historical obscurity as one of the most colorful, if contradictory, of America's dauntless crusaders.
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