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Lincoln and his Wife's Home Town
by William H. Townsend
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Red cloth over boards with gilt particulars to front board and spine. Dust jacket protected in mylar. Slightly deckled edges and uncut pages. Stated first edition to copyright page. Black and white photographs throughout. Previous owner's name to first free page--Jack D. Hasler--otherwise no other names or markings. Light wear to boards with bumping to head and tail of spine; chips and closed tears to dj with loss of dj at head of spine (see images). 6 1/4 x 9 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority mail.
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Details
- Bookseller
- William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7266
- Title
- Lincoln and his Wife's Home Town
- Author
- William H. Townsend
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1929
- Pages
- viii, 402
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History; Civil War;
Terms of Sale
William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed.
About the Seller
William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA
Biblio member since 2008
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
About William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA
We are a brick & mortar store located between I95 and the Florida Turnpike. We focus on the visual aspects of books and the book as artifact. We have large Art and Graphic Art sections including haute couture magazines but also carry Architecture, Ancient & Classical History, Performing Arts and Books on Books & Antiques. We have a large selection of Antiquarian Books, Antique maps & Antique prints. Hours by chance or appointment.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Uncut Pages
- 'Uncut pages', or simply 'uncut', traditionally refers to a book which has not been trimmed by rebinding. Prior to the...
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