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Abraham Lincoln (American Statesmen) with fold out map 2 VOLS
by Morse, John T
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 387, 373, (4) pages indexed. TWO VOLUME SET. Hardcovers in blue cloth. The bindings are rubbed, have damping, spotting. Spines are sunned, rubbed. Bumping and fraying at headcaps/feet. Top edges of text blocks are gilt. The rear gutter of first volume is cracked. Inner hinges of second volume are secure. There is a pocket in the rear pastedown that contains 22 inch wide by 16 inch tall fold out map of the southeastern states. Text is toned.
Synopsis
Note that there are 2 volumes.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051286
- Title
- Abraham Lincoln (American Statesmen) with fold out map 2 VOLS
- Author
- Morse, John T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 2.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1900; Abraham Lincoln; John T. Morse; Americana; First Edition; Collectible; American Statesmen; 19th Century; Rare; Biography; President; Emancipation Proclamation; Civil War;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Biography;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- 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"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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