- Bookseller: Austin's Antiquarian Books
- Seller Inventory #: 10762
- Format: Octavo,
- Book condition: Good in worn, chipped and faded jacket.
- Illustrator: Illustrated endpapers.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Reynal & Company,
- Place: New York:
- Date published: (1956).
Book Description
New York:: Reynal & Company,, (1956).. First edition.. Octavo,. Good in worn, chipped and faded jacket.. Illustrated endpapers.. tan cloth (hardcover)
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jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
octavo : A book whose page size is approximately 12 inches by 9 inches. 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 cut into eight pages.
chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
endpapers : 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.