- Bookseller: The Kelmscott Bookshop
- Seller Inventory #: 21939
- Format: Hard Cover.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: The Viking Press,
- Place: New York:
- Date published: (1974).
Book Description
New York:: The Viking Press,, (1974).. Hard Cover.. 8vo. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Minor sunning to top of boards. Foxing to top edge of text block.. Else is clean and bright with wonderful illustrations throughout. Pink and purple illustrated price clipped dust jacket with black title to front and to spine panels. Sunning to top half of spine. 121 pages. Children's Literature. CHILD/072209. Very Good+ in Very Good+ (Price-Clipped) 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.
price clipped : The portion of the dust jacket flap where the publisher prints the suggested price has been cut away. Usually this is a clean 1-2" diagonal cut made with scissors.
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.
