- Bookseller: Caliban Books ABAA-ILAB
- Seller Inventory #: 0055249
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: George Allen and Unwin
- Place: London
- Date published: 1950
Book Description
London: George Allen and Unwin. 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, 1950. Red cloth 8vo, 121pp. With 39 halftone plates. Errata affixed between pages 34 and 35. Light bumping to spine ends and corners. Small marking on cover, acid mark on flyleaf. DJ has soiling, esp. to spine, a tear on lower edge of rear wrap, small nick on fold of front cover. VG/VG. Text is clean and unmarked. 8vo.
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DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a 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.
bumping : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. 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.
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.
soiling : Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
VG/VG : Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or paper. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB Bookman's Weekly).
errata : a list correcting errors found after a book has already been printed.
e.p. : When used to describe a book, the endpaper(s), The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
