Thirteen Desperate Days
by POTTER, John Mason
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Galena, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Ivan Obolensky, 1964. Hardcover. Foreword by Stefan Lorant. 8vo. Blackcloth spine with ivory lettering and red paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xxiv, 200pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear and bit of rubbing. First edition, tight and handsome, of (to cite front jacket panel) "The incredible story of the unsuccessful assassination attempt on the life of President-elect Abraham Lincoln, in 1861."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43261
- Title
- Thirteen Desperate Days
- Author
- POTTER, John Mason
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Ivan Obolensky
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Abraham Lincoln;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...