- Bookseller: The Kelmscott Bookshop
- Seller Inventory #: 18116
- Format: Cloth.
- Edition: FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf,
- Place: New York:
- Date published: 1981.
Book Description
New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1981.. FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING.. Cloth.. 8vo. In tan cloth covered boards with silver title stamp to spine. In illustrated black DJ. DJ is clean but price-clipped. Small blemish to FFEP else clean internally. 467pp. LIT/071806. Very Good in Very Good dj.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
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.
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.
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.
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
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.
