- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 1315
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: Later Printing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
- Place: Boston, MA
- Date published: 1953
Book Description
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1953. Later Printing. Hardcover. Light shelf wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows one medium (>2cm), closed tear, several small chips, light creases related, price clipped, else bright and clean. Black cloth boards, red and yellow ink lettering, pictorial endpages (brands), frontispiece. 8vo. 184pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Glossary. Classic book of the art of bullfighting exceptionally illustrated with photos acquired over a dozen years.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
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.
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.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
frontispiece : A portrait or illustration on the page opposing the title page.
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.
shelf wear : Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
closed tear : A tear in which no material has been lost.
