- Bookseller: Caliban Books ABAA-ILAB
- Seller Inventory #: 0056162
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Edition: Eight Printing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Gold Label Books
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1930
Book Description
New York: Gold Label Books. 1930. Eight Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 329 pps. Very good blue cloth hardcover. Minor shelfwear. Good dust jacket. Minor shelfwear, rubbing, and darkening at top edge. Textblock tight, small spots on top edge. No marks on text. 8vo.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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.
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.
