- Bookseller: Caliban Books ABAA-ILAB
- Seller Inventory #: 0056129
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: D. Van Nostrad Company
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1951
Book Description
New York: D. Van Nostrad Company. 1951. Hardcover. Very Good. Red cloth spine with paper backed boards, 8vo, 128pp. With a few black and white illustrations in text. Very good with rubbing to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket is in good condition with an approx. 1"x1" bite out of edge of upper rear wrap, and smaller triangle-shaped bit out of front wrap near foldover. DJ is also sloppily price-clipped. Otherwise, some sunning to spine and general shelfwear. Very good/good. Text is clean and unmarked. 8vo.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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.
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.
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.
shelfwear : Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
