- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 5217
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: G.P. Putnam's
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1929
Book Description
New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, spine moderately toned, gilt lightly toned, minor fraying at head, partial split at front hinge (carefully repaired with Japanese hinge paper), minor toning to text block edges, hint of foxing related to plate pages, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering, map endpages, frontispiece. 8vo. 280pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Autobiography of a confessed fishing fanatic of his time in and about Florida. A nice reading copy.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
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.
reading copy : Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage.
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.
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.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
