- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 4741
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Abrams
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1977
Book Description
New York: Abrams, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Touch of dust staining at top of text block, hint of foxing at top edge of preliminaries, ghost of a bookplate lift at ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ bright and clean. Red cloth boards, gilt lettering, grey endpages, frontispiece. Oblong 4to. 319pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). ) Introduction by Irving Wallace. Holmes purchased his first camera in 1883 and continued to snap until his death at 88. A remarkable collection of images. Noted flaws notwithstanding, a very handsome copy.
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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.
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.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
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.
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
