- Bookseller: Jeff Weber Rare Books
- Seller Inventory #: AA1742
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Zamorano Club
- Place: Los Angeles:
- Date published: 1970
Book Description
Los Angeles:: Zamorano Club. 1970. hardcover. 1. 8vo. xi, 83 pp. Frontis. port. of Edward Weston’s photograph of Robinson in 1929, 6 plates with numerous figs. Green cloth, printed paper top cover label, gilt spine. Slip case. Bookplate of John Haskell Kemble. Fine. . LIMITED EDITION of 825 copies printed by The Ward Ritchie Press, including 200 specially printed for distribution to the members of the Zamorano Club and the Roxburghe Club.
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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.
slip case : A protective sleeve, often made of decorative cardboard or leather which houses a book. It is open on one end, so as to allow the book to "slip" in.
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.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
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.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
