- Bookseller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 16008
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1943
Book Description
New York Farrar & Rinehart 1943 Hardcover First edition 324pp. Octavo [21 cm] Tan cloth with gilt title on backstrip. Very good/Very good. Corners of price clipped jacket chipped with loss. Twenty-fourth volume in 'The Rivers of America series'. Illustrated by Dorris Lee. Fitzgerald S18.
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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.
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.
chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
gilt : The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
