- Bookseller: The Kelmscott Bookshop
- Seller Inventory #: 15737
- Format: Cloth Boards.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company,
- Place: Boston:
- Date published: 1972.
Book Description
Boston:: Little, Brown and Company,, 1972.. Cloth Boards.. 8vo. Price-clipped dj. Light green boards with gilt title to spine. Clean, tight interior. Illustrated dj with white spine panel and maroon and black title. Chipping/wear/rubbing to panels and edges of jacket. Signed by previous owner. 235 pp. CHINA/021005. Very Good in Very Good dj.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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
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.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
