Book Description
Hardcover. Garden City NY 1943. 339pp, b&w plates. Black pic. cloth rubbed, dj spine slt. discolored & chipped o/w good copy in good dj. A white man in the Canadian Arctic among the Eskimos of King William area.
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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.
chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
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.
sl. : slight
o/w : An abbreviation for otherwise
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
