- Bookseller: Austin's Antiquarian Books
- Seller Inventory #: 6275
- Format: Octavo,
- Book condition: Very good in fair jacket. Jacket is dampstained at the back joint and has chippiing at head and tail and a short tear at the to
- Publisher: Farrar, Strauss and Young,
- Place: New York:
- Date published: (1953).
Book Description
New York:: Farrar, Strauss and Young, , (1953). . Octavo,. Very good in fair jacket. Jacket is dampstained at the back joint and has chippiing at head and tail and a short tear at the top of the front panel. . grey cloth and orange boards in pictorial jacket.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound 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.
tail : The heel of the spine.
Fair : is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. (which must be noted). Binding, jacket (if any), etc., may also be worn. All defects must be noted. (defined by AB Bookman's Weekly)
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
