- Seller Inventory #: 006658
- Book condition: Fair-good/Fair Chipped Edges.
- Illustrator: Illus. b/w Charles Banks Wilson
- Edition: No Other Date
- Publisher: Holiday House
- Place: New York (1945, 1958)
- Keywords: Abraham, Lincoln
New York (1945, 1958): Holiday House. Fair-good/Fair Chipped Edges.. No Other Date. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author DJ, illus. color, worn, with pieces missing/scuffed. Spine binding missing around 3" at top rear. Signed on front endpaper by author, along with previous donor, and (Y9B) printed as well. light stain rear page running through top corner of book. No harm to text or illustrations. .
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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. Also known as the back.
chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
endpaper : The double leaves bound into a book at the front and rear after printing. One side is glued to the inner portion of the boards (the paste-down) and the other is left loose (free endpaper).
