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Diplomat in Carpet Slippers: Abraham Lincoln Deals with Foreign Affairs
by Monaghan, Jay
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 22 x 15 cm. Octavo. 505pp. Red boards in price clipped dust jacket. This copy is signed by the author who inscribed it: "For Walter Trohan who knows Lincoln's Civil War". This possibly refers to the Chicago Tribune reporter he reported extensively on several US president including FDR, Truman, and Nixon. Several chips out of the dust jacket near head and tail of spine. Rear gutter starting.
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- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74554
- Title
- Diplomat in Carpet Slippers: Abraham Lincoln Deals with Foreign Affairs
- Author
- Monaghan, Jay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis and New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- Presidents Abraham Lincoln
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- 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....
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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