- Bookseller: Caliban Books ABAA-ILAB
- Seller Inventory #: 0057547
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Near Fine
- Edition: Third
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Editions Du Centre National De La Recherce Scientique
- Place: Paris
- Date published: 1969
Book Description
Paris: Editions Du Centre National De La Recherce Scientique. 1969. Third. Hardcover. Near Fine. Third / Troisieme edition. 248 pp., 39 plates in rear. Hardcover, black cloth, illustrated, 4to. Near Fine copy in Very Good original plastic dust jacket. Boards lightly cocked; otherwise a Fine copy. Crisp and clean boards. Insides bright and unmarked. DJ shows 1" square loss to foot of spine; very shallow tearing at head. 4to.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
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.
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.
crisp : A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp will not have 'well-read' pages, i.e., where the book will naturally open to certain pages or sections.
4to : Or quarto. A term used generally to describe the approximate size of a book, a book that is about 10" to 12" tall and roughly squarish in shape. The term is based on the size of paper traditionally used by book printers which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
