- Bookseller: The Kelmscott Bookshop
- Seller Inventory #: 9861
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Random House,
- Place: New York:
- Date published: 1955.
Book Description
New York:: Random House,, 1955.. 8vo. Blue cloth covered boards with bronze and white title to spine. Interior is clean and bright with many photographic illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket with black title to front panel and white title to blue spine. Minor wear to price clipped dust jacket including chipping to spine ends and edges. One small closed tear to head of spine. 302 pages. THE110251.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
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.
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.
chipping : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
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.
closed tear : A tear in which no material has been lost.
