- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 2685
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: Second Printing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Devin-Adair
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1954 [1955]
Book Description
New York: Devin-Adair, 1954 [1955]. Second Printing. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear, touch of dust spotting to top of text block, leaves evenly toned, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf wear, several small, closed tears, light toning of white spaces, light foxing on verso, else bright and clean. Green cloth boards, silver gilt lettering, red metallic ink decorative elements, map endpages. 8vo. 168pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Maps. Glossary.
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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.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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.
leaves : When used to refer to a part of a book means the book's pages.
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.
verso : The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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 tears : Tears in which no material has been lost.
