- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 4722
- Format: Original Wraps
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Chittenden Press
- Place: Toledo, OH
- Date published: 1937
Book Description
Toledo, OH: Chittenden Press, 1937. First Edition. Original Wraps. Light shelf/edge wear, inscribed by author at ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green overlapped stiff wraps, gilt label, black ink lettering and decorative elements, tipped in plate. Small 8vo. 20pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Inscribed by author. A handsome copy of this increasingly uncommon volume.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
wraps : The paper covering on the outside of a paperback.
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.
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
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.
inscribed : a short note written by the author or a previous owner in the beginning of a book, generally accompanied by a signature.
