- Seller Inventory #: SAS3602
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Fair
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Illustrator: Black and White Photographs
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Place: Baton Rouge, LA
- Date published: 1948
- Keywords: American History; Civil War; Abraham Lincoln; President; Gettysburg Address; Slavery
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1948 Binding scuffed and faded with moderate wear to extremities; spine loose; textblock aged, top half of pp. 55-58 torn out, jacket flaps taped to reverso of ffep; 138 pp. including index.. Buckram. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Black and White Photographs. Octavo. Ex-Library, Hard Cover.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
flap(s) : The portion of a dust jacket which folds around the edges of a book. Often has descriptive text printed on it.
octavo : A book whose page size is approximately 12 inches by 9 inches. 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 cut into eight pages.
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.
Ex-library : A former library book, generally containing library acquisition and ownership stamped markings, and other typical indications of the library's use.
buckram : A cloth made of cotton or linen which is used to cover a book.
