- Seller Inventory #: AMHIST014
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good+
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Edition: BCE
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Doubleday & Co.
- Place: Garden City
- Date published: 1956
- Keywords: Civil War, Union Army, Abraham Lincoln, War Between the States
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1956 maps on end papers; book block very clean and tight; binding hand-soiled, with bumped corners and otherwise light shelf wear. overall a very nice copy.. BCE. Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Octavo. 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
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.
BCE : Book Club Edition
bumped : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
shelf wear : Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.