- Bookseller: Charles Agvent, ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 000137
- Format: Cloth
- Book condition: Quite a nice copy, largely unopened, in the uncommon dustwrapper
- Edition: First Edition
- Publisher: McBride
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1922
Book Description
New York: McBride, 1922. First Edition. Cloth. Quite a nice copy, largely unopened, in the uncommon dustwrapper. Some foxing to endpapers & covers; dw missing two sections from middle of spine but not affecting any lettering.
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dustwrapper : Another term 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.
unopened : A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional method for printing and binding books in which a large sheet of paper was printed with several pages, folded, and bound into the book. . Sometimes inappropriately called uncut
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
