- Bookseller: The Kelmscott Bookshop
- Seller Inventory #: 5310
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company,
- Place: Boston:
- Date published: 1929.
Book Description
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin Company,, 1929.. Good plus blue cloth boards, yellowed paper pastedown label to cover; spine darkened; staining/discoloration to rear board and portion of spine. Foxing throughout interior; frontispiece + 23 other brown-toned illustrated plates. Previous owner's name to ffep. Front inner hinge loose, textblock mostly tight but split in a few places. 46 pp. + plates. Poetry. POE/11053.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound 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.
frontispiece : A portrait or illustration on the page opposing the title page.
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.
hinge : The portion of a book near the spine that is intended to flex to allow the book to open.
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
