- Bookseller: Jeff Weber Rare Books
- Seller Inventory #: M6459
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: 2
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press
- Place: Princeton:
- Date published: 1941
Book Description
Princeton:: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. 1941. hardcover. 2. 228 x 153 mm. 8vo. xvii, 264 pp. Index. Green cloth, dust-jacket; rear of jacket stained. Very good.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
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
MM : Mass Market Paperback. Often thought of as the pocket paperback.
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.
