- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 1836
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First Edition thus/Second State
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Random House
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1946
Book Description
New York: Random House, 1946. First Edition thus/Second State. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear (focused at tips), else tight, bright and unmarred. Quarterbound, black cloth spine, orange paper boards, orange ink lettering and decorative elements, top of text block dyed brown. 8vo. 107pp. Freely adapted from the MEDEA of Euripides." Second state with error on page 99 corrected.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound 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.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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.
second state : used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction, or a change in binding color.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
