- Bookseller: Caliban Books ABAA-ILAB
- Seller Inventory #: 0042576
- Format: Hardbound
- Book condition: Near Fine Minus
- Edition: Edition Not Stated Presumed 1st Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Amalthea Verlag
- Place: Zurich; Leipzig; Wien
- Date published: 1953
Book Description
Zurich; Leipzig; Wien: Amalthea Verlag. 1953. Edition Not Stated Presumed 1st Edition. Hardbound. Near Fine Minus. Hardbound small octavo in light blue cloth w/gold emboss; clean, unmarked text, illust w/b&w plates, Italian language edition; 455 pp. Copy is Near Fine Minus; light shelf wear and soil; some rubbing, bumping, and bending of corners and spine foot w/no loss; finger soil on corner of text block, & few stray marks; strong and tight. Endps show map of eastern Russia and incld few pencilled notes.
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rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
octavo : A book whose page size is approximately 12 inches by 9 inches. 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 cut into eight pages.
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.
bumping : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. 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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
shelf wear : Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
