![]() ![]() “I had formed my plan of life,” recalled Thomas Paine a few years after his arrival in 1774, “and conceiving myself happy, wished every body else so. Adams, American Controversy, 76-107d Adams, American Independence, 222y Gimbel, Thomas Paine, CS-27 Grolier, American 100, 14. Bound in recent gray paper covers and housed in a finely tooled clamshell box and chemise, dyed red with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Holes from a stab binding to the gutters. The generous margins have been trimmed on the outer edge, with slight loss to some of the holograph additions. A nearly fine copy with a few small repairs to the title page, and loss to the corners of the first several pages. ![]() Presumed first issue without half-title or appended Plain Truth, with manuscript completions. First edition printed in England, with all points noted in Gimbel, pp. To which is added an Appendix together with an Address to the People called Quakers. Philadelphia, Printed London, Re-Printed, for J. Common Sense Addressed to the Inhabitants of America… A New Edition, with several Additions in the Body of the Work. ![]()
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