First edition, SECOND printing.

1882 date printed to the title page.

The first printing was published in 1881.

Illustrated with two steel engraved plates, one a portrait of James A. Garfield and the other a portrait of his wife.

Seventeen additional quality illustrated plates including a depiction of the assassination.

A comprehensive life, and political career biography.

A sturdily preserved, and quite usable antiquarian book.

A few upper page corner tips creased, offset tanning to the end-papers and to one internal page, pages slightly age-toned and lightly foxed, inner hinges starting--still holding soundly, some rub-wear to the upper and lower spine edges, lower shelf-edges, spine folds, and fore-edges, former damped stain to the lower rear cover, thumb-print sized rub spot to the front cover, else about good, fairly tight and sound in dark-brown linen with darker-brown embossed decorative patterns and titles to the front cover and with gilt embossed titles and darker-brown decorative embossed panel to the spine, brown and yellow headband and tail-band.

Octavo; 384 pages.