Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858 In Two Volumes
by Beveridge, Albert J
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ to very good condition
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. Hardcover. Good+ to very good condition. Quarto. xxviii, 607, 8 plates, vii, (1) 741pp., 8 plates. Three-quarter red leather over marbled boards with gilt ruling, gilt lettering,tooling and ruling on spine; raised bands. Gilt top edge. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece photogravure in both volumes, with tissue guard. Publisher's device on title pages. Illustrated with eighteen plates reproduced in high-quality offset. With list of works cited in these volumes at front, index at rear. Small card with Mrs. Levy Mayer printed to front and handwritten address taped to front free endpaper, envelope laid in. Binding with light wear along edges, leather flaking at front joint of volume one, else small chips and light wear along edges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50319
- Title
- Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858 In Two Volumes
- Author
- Beveridge, Albert J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ to very good condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- photogravure, Lincoln portrait photographs, American President, Lincoln family, American politics, civil war
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
Glossary
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Marbled boards
- ...
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