- Bookseller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 19425
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
- Place: Boston
- Date published: 1951
Book Description
Boston Little, Brown and Company 1951 Hardcover First edition 277pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth. Very good/Very good. Folds of jacket have been professionally restored. New end sheets and pastedowns. Front panel of jacket is bright. Housed in red cloth clamshell. This is the first state of the dust jacket. Overall a nice copy of this twentieth century classic. Starosciak A30a.
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dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for 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.
first state : used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some part of the binding or correction of the text which has been made in later versions of the first edition print run.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
