Book Description
Boston: Four Seas Co., 1920.. Large octavo. Printed boards. Frontis drawing by Stuart Davis. First edition. Bookplate on pastedown, tan offsetting to endsheets from jacket flaps, otherwise an unusually nice copy of this easily abused book, in an imperfect, but largely complete dust jacket. WALLACE A4.
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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.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
flap(s) : The portion of a dust jacket which folds around the edges of a book. Often has descriptive text printed on it.
octavo : A book whose page size is approximately 12 inches by 9 inches. 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 cut into eight pages.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book.
