- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 4108
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Harper
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1903
Book Description
New York: Harper, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor shelf/edge wear, hint of toning at spine, owner signature on frontispiece verso, else tight, bright and unmarred. Red cloth boards, white ink label, gilt lettering and decorative elements, decorative endpages, frontispiece, tissueguard. Small 8vo. 179pp. Illus. (b/w plate). Author's fourth book. First state. Overall, a handsome copy.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound 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. Also known as the back.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
gilt : The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example.
frontispiece : A portrait or illustration on the page opposing the title page.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. 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 folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
verso : The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
first state : used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some part of the binding or correction of the text which has been made in later versions of the first edition print run.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
