Book, FROM THE TOW PATH TO THE WHITE HOUSE: THE EARLY LIFE AND PUBLIC CAREER OF JAMES A. GARFIELD, by Gen. James Brisbin, 1880. Philadelphia: Hubbard Bros. 8vo, cloth, 585 pp.
Campaign biography of Garfield, with a sketch of the life of Chester Arthur, and an account of the convention from which the compromise ticket emerged. Illustrated with woodcuts and steel-engraved portraits. Gold-accented cover features a boy riding a donkey, towing a log in a canal, from which ascends a ladder leading to the White House.
A good copy with secure binding, only moderate wear to covers and scattered foxing to inner pages.
