- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 4305
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First Edition/Limited Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: The Pynson Printers
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1929
Book Description
New York: The Pynson Printers, 1929. First Edition/Limited Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, light wear/fraying at head and heel, tips through, else tight, bright and unmarred. Dark brown cloth boards, gilt lettering, tan endpages, frontispiece, tipped in gate-folded color plate. 4to. 18pp plus 99 plate pages. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Limited numbered edition, this being 188 of 1200. Frontispiece lithograph by Rockwell Kent. An exceptional catalogue Cleland's work.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
heel : The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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.
4to : Or quarto. A term used generally to describe the approximate size of a book, a book that is about 10" to 12" tall and roughly squarish in shape. The term is based on the size of paper traditionally used by book printers which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.
plate : Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
tipped in : used to describe something which has been glued into a book, for example a bookplate.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
