Book Description
Irish, William. I Married a Dead Man. J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia 1948, 1st edition (stated). 8vo, 254pp. Near fine in a near fine dj, un-price clipped. First edition of this classic suspense novel. Original pencilled price on ffep, original bookstore stamp on rear ffep. Faint crease in dj spine, slt. wrinkled, remnants of sticky tape on front & back foredge flaps. Brilliantly un-sunned.
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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.
flap(s) : The portion of a dust jacket which folds around the edges of a book. Often has descriptive text printed on it.
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.
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.
sl. : slight
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
