- Bookseller: The Kelmscott Bookshop
- Seller Inventory #: 20840
- Format: Hard Cover.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Donald M. Grant,
- Place: West Kingston, Rhode Island:
- Date published: 1977.
Book Description
West Kingston, Rhode Island:: Donald M. Grant,, 1977.. Hard Cover.. 1ST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Minor fading to top edge of boards and spine. Slight musty odor to boards. Pristine interior with six full color plates. Blue illustrated dust jacket with white title to fron panel and to spine. Minor rubbing to jacket. 252 pages. Literature, LIT/071508. Very Good + in Near Fine DJ.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
