The Ordeal of the Union [Complete in 8 Volumes]: Ordeal of the Union / The Emergence of Lincoln / The War for the Union
by Nevins, Allan
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/VG+
- Seller
-
Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Complete in eight (8) volumes, bound in burgundy (I, V) and red (II-IV, V-VIII) cloth, lettered in gilt. All volumes show dulled or foxed top text block edges, otherwise nearly as issued with firm, square bindings, clean and unmarked interiors. Vols. I and V are BOMC editions, sized approx. 1/8 shorter in unclipped DJs showing minor shelf wear; all others are later printings of publisher's editions in DJs mildly rubbed at spine extremities, with price-clipped front flaps -- all DJs in mylar. Volume titles: (OOTU I) Fruits of Manifest Destiny 1847-1852; (OOTU II) A House Dividing 1852-1857; (TEOL I) Douglas, Buchanan, and Party Chaos 1857-1859; (TEOL II) Prologue to Civil War 1859-1861; (TEOL III) War Becomes Revolution 1862-1863; (TWFTU I) The Improvised War 1861-1862; (TWFTU II) The Organized War 1863-1864; (TWFTU III) The Organized War to Victory 1864-1865..
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- Seller
- Saucony Book Shop
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 053423
- Title
- The Ordeal of the Union [Complete in 8 Volumes]: Ordeal of the Union / The Emergence of Lincoln / The War for the Union
- Author
- Nevins, Allan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- VG+
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History; Military History; Civil War;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Saucony Book Shop
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About the Seller
Saucony Book Shop
Biblio member since 2005
Kutztown, Pennsylvania
About Saucony Book Shop
The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. We make no attempt to be a general-service book shop. Our inventory is highly selective, individually chosen from among the hundreds of thousands of books to which we have access annually at auctions, library and estate sales, and through individual scouts and vendors. We do not handle material that does not meet our expectations in terms of condition or interest to our specialized, idiosyncratic customers. Despite maintaining a browsing inventory of more than 15,000 volumes, we have minimized our carbon footprint by maintaining our entire operation in a cozy ca. 1890 barn and lean-to adjacent to an historic creamery in rural Maxatawny Township. Our shop is available for browsing by appointment and occasionally, in temperate weather, by chance, so email or call ahead to peruse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel. Thanks for reading about us! Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
Glossary
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- Fine
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages 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....
- BOMC
- Book-of-the-Month Club These are popular books republished and sold at a discounted price by one of these many clubs, the...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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