- Bookseller: Argonaut Book Shop
- Seller Inventory #: 3423
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
- Place: College Station
- Date published: 1985
Book Description
College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1985 First edition. INSCRIBED by the author. Octavo. Numerous illustrations by the author. Brown cloth with black lettering. Bottom corner and foot of spine lightly bumped, else a fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. Spine of jacket slightly faded. The memiors of an American artist living in a small Mexican village in the 1920's. .
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dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
octavo : A book whose page size is approximately 12 inches by 9 inches. 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 cut into eight pages.
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.
bumped : 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.
inscribed : a short note written by the author or a previous owner in the beginning of a book, generally accompanied by a signature.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
