Uncommon book: The Life of Andrew Jackson, Major-General in the Service of the United States, comprising A History of the War in the South, from the commencement of the Creek Campaign, to the termination of hostilities before New Orleans, by Senator John Henry Eaton. Second edition. Philadelphia: Samuel F. Bradford, 1824. Hardcover bound in full brown calf, 5.75 x 9, 468 pages. Book condition: G/None, with heavy rubbing to boards, joints cracked and worn, losses to leather on spine, foxing throughout, and the bookplate of Joel Davis Madden, Jr., affixed to front pastedown. Accompanied by a custom-made quarter-leather clamshell case.
Joel Davis Madden, Jr., left Princeton University in 1905 and moved west to make his fortune in the railroad industry. He went on to become an executive with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and died suddenly in 1928 at the age of 41. His book collection, offered by his granddaughter, has not been publicly offered or privately sold in a century.
