- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 4663
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Inc.
- Place: New York, NY
- Date published: 1950
Book Description
New York, NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Inc., 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows moderate shelf/edge wear, chipping at edges, split at front hinge (appears to have been repaired with Japanese mending paper, moderate chip at rear tip, price clipped, else clean. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering. 8vo. 275pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Railroad and railroad lore. Overall, a handsome copy of this increasingly uncommon volume.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
price clipped : The portion of the dust jacket flap where the publisher prints the suggested price has been cut away. Usually this is a clean 1-2" diagonal cut made with scissors.
chipping : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
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.
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.
hinge : The portion of a book near the spine that is intended to flex to allow the book to open.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
