- Bookseller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
- Seller Inventory #: 11899
- Book condition: Very good in very good dj
- Edition: First edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Company,
- Place: New York:
- Date published: 1942.
Book Description
New York:: Bobbs-Merrill Company,. 1942.. First edition. Very good in very good dj. 8vo, 274pp,b&w illus throughout. Illustrations by Bob Kuhn. Bright green cloth covers with title in gilt on front cover and on stamped spine. Blue and brown pictorial dj with title in yellow on brown ground above illustration of deer in woods on front cover, and in yellow on brown blue spine. Dj is very good, with only the slightest rubbing at head and tail of dj spine. Internally very good. A story for children and adults by the author of Bambi.
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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.
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.
tail : The heel of the spine.
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.
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.
