- Bookseller: Riverow Bookshop, INC ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: BOOKS238194I
- Format: Cloth
- Book condition: G/FR
- Illustrator: Black & White Plates
- Edition: Later Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- Place: New York, NY
- Date published: 1967
Book Description
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. G/FR. 1967. Later Edition. Cloth. Fifth Edition, 3rd printing . 8vo., 478, xv pp., DJ price-clipped, yellowed, frayed, chipped, Bookplate on ffe .
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
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.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
