- Bookseller: The Kelmscott Bookshop
- Seller Inventory #: 21903
- Format: Hard Cover.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: University of Delaware Press and Associated University Press,
- Place: Newark, London and Toronto:
- Date published: 1981.
Book Description
Newark, London and Toronto:: University of Delaware Press and Associated University Press,, 1981.. Hard Cover.. 8vo. Black cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Minor bumping to head of spine. Residue from price sticker to front paste down. Else is clean and bright. Black illustrated dust jacket with white and gold title to front panel and gold title to spine panel. Wear to jacket includes chipping and creasing to edges and spine ends as well as a few small closed tears to edges. Minor foxing to rear panel. Index, 265 pages. Poetry. POET/070709. Near Fine in Good + DJ.
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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.
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.
bumping : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
chipping : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
gilt : The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
Closed tears : Tears in which no material has been lost.
