- Bookseller: The Kelmscott Bookshop
- Seller Inventory #: 18800
- Format: Paper Wrappers.
- Publisher: Librairie Gallimard,
- Date published: 1930.
Book Description
Librairie Gallimard,, 1930.. Paper Wrappers.. 8vo. 3083 of 4050 copies. Beige paper wrappers with red title to spine and front panel. Browning to spine. Dampstain to bottom corner of wrappers and to pages. Original glassine with minor chipping to edges and closed tear to spine panel. 128 pages. FRE/100906. Very Good in Very Good dj.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
DJ : Short 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.
wrappers : Paperback or softbound. Also, wraps.
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.
closed tear : A tear in which no material has been lost.
