The 75th anniversary of the founding of the Dental School of Harvard University. A record of the celebration held at the Harvard Club of Boston, April 16, 1943. 1868-1943

MM : Mass Market Paperback. Often thought of as the pocket paperback.

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.

Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.