The Iron Furnace: Or, Slavery and Secession
by John H. Aughey
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Lancaster, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: William S. & Alfred Martien. Fair with no dust jacket. 1863. Hardcover. Hard cover published by William and Alfred Martien in 1863. Dark blue pebbled covers with gilt lettering on spine. Binding is cocked some. Covers have hand-drawn lines across them and have some stains and scuffing. Ends of spine are worn and frayed, and corners are bumped and worn, with some fraying. Front endpaper has name and address of a previous owner written in middle and has some writing at top. Inside front cover has some writing at top. Some pages have foxing or stains. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 296 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Inside the Covers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MSA5576
- Title
- The Iron Furnace: Or, Slavery and Secession
- Author
- John H. Aughey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- William S. & Alfred Martien
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1863
- Keywords
- American History, Secession, Civil War, Slavery, States Rights
Terms of Sale
Inside the Covers
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2011
Lancaster, Texas
About Inside the Covers
History and Texana books, along with signed first editions.
Glossary
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....